Ranked #1
Zibi Turtle and a Mission to the Ice Giants
Zibi Turtle and a Mission to the Ice Giants
They are the most neglected planets in our solar system, but that status may be changing. Planetary scientist Elizabeth ... Read more
22 Sep 2015
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28mins
Ranked #2
Another Goldilocks World and the Space Telescope That Discovered It
Another Goldilocks World and the Space Telescope That Discovered It
The planet has the less than romantic name TOI 700 d, but its discovery has generated passion among those searching for ... Read more
12 Feb 2020
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51mins
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Getting Humans to Mars Without Breaking the Bank
Getting Humans to Mars Without Breaking the Bank
NASA scientist Harley Thronson tells us about a new initiative that is figuring out how we will get men and women to the... Read more
18 Feb 2014
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28mins
Ranked #4
From Earth to the Edge of the Universe: A New Edition of “The Cosmos”
From Earth to the Edge of the Universe: A New Edition of “The Cosmos”
Astronomers Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko join us for a conversation about their newest version of their monumental ... Read more
21 Jan 2014
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30mins
Ranked #5
Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?
Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?
New research indicates that globular clusters—collections of up to a million stars—could provide stable environments for... Read more
26 Jan 2016
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41mins
Ranked #6
Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope
Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope
Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large... Read more
13 Jan 2015
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36mins
Ranked #7
Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
We open with the countdown to destruction—the MESSENGER spacecraft’s impact on Mercury ended its spectacularly successfu... Read more
5 May 2015
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28mins
Ranked #8
Chris Carberry and Getting Humans to Mars
Chris Carberry and Getting Humans to Mars
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a... Read more
2 Jun 2015
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28mins
Ranked #9
The Coming Descent to Asteroid Bennu
The Coming Descent to Asteroid Bennu
After a year of circling close to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS REx spacecraft is almost ready to dip down and c... Read more
22 Jan 2020
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #10
Space, SETI, the Singularity and Shostak
Space, SETI, the Singularity and Shostak
Where is everybody? That was the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked when he wondered why we hadn’t yet met ET. What w... Read more
7 Feb 2018
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59mins
Ranked #11
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude
Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, ... Read more
28 Jul 2015
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43mins
Ranked #12
Mighty Jupiter Revealed
Mighty Jupiter Revealed
It’s more massive than all the other planets combined. In nearly four years at Jupiter the Juno spacecraft has returned ... Read more
29 Jan 2020
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31mins
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Visiting the Earth-Like Worlds of TRAPPIST-1
Visiting the Earth-Like Worlds of TRAPPIST-1
We have begun to understand the composition of worlds that are hundreds of trillions of kilometers from Earth. Astronome... Read more
11 Apr 2018
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31mins
Ranked #14
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
Planet 9 From Outer Space!
Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin fully expect a new and undemotable ninth planet will be found in the outer reaches of ... Read more
9 Feb 2016
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49mins
Ranked #15
A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b
A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b
SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mas... Read more
14 Jul 2015
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28mins
Ranked #16
Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission’s Marc Rayman
Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission’s Marc Rayman
It’s the biggest dwarf planet between here and Pluto, and it has a new permanent resident. The Dawn spacecraft is orbiti... Read more
19 May 2015
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33mins
Ranked #17
Microbes in Orbit: Cheryl Nickerson’s Revealing Biomedical Research
Microbes in Orbit: Cheryl Nickerson’s Revealing Biomedical Research
You may have heard that the sometimes deadly Salmonella bacterium becomes stronger in microgravity. Cheryl Nickerson tel... Read more
8 Apr 2014
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42mins
Ranked #18
Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”
Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”
Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” H... Read more
3 Mar 2015
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46mins
Ranked #19
Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life
Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life
Astrobiology is the discipline that explores the origin of life in the universe, and whether life exists anywhere other ... Read more
30 Jan 2019
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54mins
Ranked #20
2014: The Year in Space
2014: The Year in Space
Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill... Read more
30 Dec 2014
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28mins