Ranked #1
Earth's Mini-Stalker
Earth's Mini-Stalker
Lurking out there beyond the orbit of the Moon is a sneaky little asteroid that is stalking the Earth, meandering around... Read more
1 Jul 2016
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34mins
Ranked #2
It's That Time of the Solar Cycle
It's That Time of the Solar Cycle
Professor Yan Fernandez, Principal Scientist of the Arecibo Observatory, joins Josh and Addie to talk about the unique c... Read more
11 Mar 2020
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51mins
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I Left My Communicator on Sigma Iotia!
I Left My Communicator on Sigma Iotia!
The astroquarks welcome noted science blogger and author Dr. Ethan Siegel whose new book Treknology takes a look at the ... Read more
22 Oct 2017
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33mins
Ranked #4
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
Not content with being the self-proclaimed "Pluto Killer", CalTech professor Mike Brown has now co-authored a paper hypo... Read more
23 Jan 2016
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28mins
Ranked #5
Black Holes: What Goes In Might Come Out
Black Holes: What Goes In Might Come Out
While we stick by our longstanding advice never to enter a black hole, Jim Cooney and Zoe Landsman join Josh and Addie i... Read more
17 Jun 2016
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34mins
Ranked #6
Stripey Buggers
Stripey Buggers
The astroquarks welcome Brendan Byrne from WMFE 90.7 to discuss the some jaw-dropping images of Saturn's rings as Cassin... Read more
5 Feb 2017
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37mins
Ranked #7
SOFIA, Nobel and Kuiper - What's in a Name?
SOFIA, Nobel and Kuiper - What's in a Name?
The astroquarks welcome WMFE space reporter Brendan Byrne who recounts his flight on the SOFIA airborne observatory. The... Read more
10 Oct 2017
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39mins
Ranked #8
El Nino and the Price of Anchovies
El Nino and the Price of Anchovies
So what do floods in the southwest have to do with the price of anchovies? Join Josh, and Julie Brisset and find out in ... Read more
13 Jan 2016
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30mins
Ranked #9
The Great Black Hole Escape
The Great Black Hole Escape
What are gravitational waves good for? Getting rid of that pesky supermassive black hole that's outstayed its welcome, f... Read more
27 Mar 2017
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35mins
Ranked #10
Antimatter and Wormholes
Antimatter and Wormholes
An instrument on the International Space Station that can help us understand more about antimatter is getting an upgrade... Read more
17 Nov 2019
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50mins
Ranked #11
Fly Me To The Moon (of Saturn!)
Fly Me To The Moon (of Saturn!)
Disappointed that we don't have jetpacks and flying cars? Dr. Amanda Hendrix joins the Astroquarks to suggest an alterna... Read more
30 Nov 2017
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34mins
Ranked #12
A Space Odyssey
A Space Odyssey
One of these rocks is not like the other. One is a meteorite, and one is an asteroid, and we know that meteorites come f... Read more
30 Jan 2017
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37mins
Ranked #13
The Hottest Year in a Row!
The Hottest Year in a Row!
Venus continues its record-setting warm streak now at over 1 billion years and counting, while the Earth just set its ow... Read more
23 Jan 2017
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34mins
Ranked #14
OSIRIS-REx Gets the Gravity Assist and Scores!
OSIRIS-REx Gets the Gravity Assist and Scores!
How exactly (and why) does a spacecraft get a "gravitational assist" from a planet en route to another planet? Where doe... Read more
4 Oct 2017
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40mins
Ranked #15
The Babiest Galaxy
The Babiest Galaxy
Jim Cooney joins Josh and Addie to talk about the origin of galaxies and the observation of a galaxy from when the unive... Read more
6 Mar 2016
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37mins
Ranked #16
Attack of the Gravitational Wave
Attack of the Gravitational Wave
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, two big black holes (no jokes, please) collided with each other releasing a g... Read more
18 Feb 2016
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30mins
Ranked #17
Is Planet 9 Lost in Space?
Is Planet 9 Lost in Space?
Planet 9, also known as Egotron in honor of its supporters, has never been seen. A new statistical analysis of a deep sk... Read more
28 Jun 2017
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39mins
Ranked #18
2017 - A Great Year for Space
2017 - A Great Year for Space
While terrestrial matters were frequently dark and depressing, 2017 was a banner year for the cosmos, or at least for ou... Read more
28 Dec 2017
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45mins
Ranked #19
The Little Neutrino That Could
The Little Neutrino That Could
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a little neutrino left a very large black hole headed straight for a point in... Read more
27 Jul 2018
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38mins
Ranked #20
That's Quite a Hadron You've Got There!
That's Quite a Hadron You've Got There!
The Large Hadron Collider announced five new subatomic particles recently. Top astroquark Jim Cooney is our go-to quark ... Read more
5 Apr 2017
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39mins