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This month Hannah, Andrew, and Hugh are joined in the virtual Exocast studio by planetary scientist Dr Naomi Rowe-Gurney. Naomi is a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and How…

We cover this month’s most exciting exoplanetary (and solar system) news:

• Andrew tells us about details of the proposed “Venus Life Finder” mission which would go beyond ESA & NASA’s selected Ven…

Hugh, Hannah & Andrew turn their attention to a simple question with a very complicated answer: our favourite!

This month we are pondering how planets form. What do we know about planet formatio…

The latest news hot off the Exocast news desk for July/August 2022, another exciting month for exoplanet science:

• Andrew takes some time to discuss the life and influence of Dr James Lovelock, th…

This month Hannah, Andrew & Hugh are joined by NASA Goddard’s space telescope expert, Dr. Knicole Colón. Fresh from her NASA TV appearance unveiling JWST’s first exoplanet spectrum to the world, the…

The latest news hot off the Exocast news desk for June/July 2022, a very exciting month for exoplanet science:

• Hannah gives us a run-down of some of the long-awaited first images from JWST, inclu…

The latest exoplanet news hot off the Exocast news desk:

• Hannah gives us a run-down of the Exoplanets IV conference held recently in Las Vegas, at which both her and Hugh were in attendence, incl…

In this episode of Exocast the team are fortunate to be joined in the virtual studio by Dr Jennifer Burt, NASA/JPL’s Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Investigation Scientist, for an extreme discuss…

Join us for this months news episode where the Exocast team delve into new discoveries, characterisation, and astrobiology investigations to learn all about the latest research being published in ex…

This month Hugh, Hannah, and Andrew go back to basics to discuss the diversity and complexity inherent in the study of planetary atmospheres. Exocast-59b touches on how we define an atmosphere and t…

In this month’s news episode Hugh, Hannah, and Andrew each discuss a paper(s) from the past month of exoplanet research including: JWST test data analysis, the oxidation of the Earth, and updates fr…

In this episode the Exocast team talk with Dr Megan (Meg) Schwamb about her work from the solar system to distant exoplanets and citizen science. The show is jam packed with exciting science and eno…

In this episode the Exocast team take a look at three new studies presented in the exoplanet literature:

• Andrew introduces us to a new Nature Astronomy paper “Assessing planetary complexity and …

This month Hugh, Hannah and Andrew discuss a deceptively simple question about the limits of planetary size… Exocast-57b takes you from measurements of exoplanet radius and mass, the difficulty with…

In this episode the Exocast gang chat with Dr Mark McCaughrean, who is a Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration at the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) S…

That’s right it is that time of year again where the Exocast team pit planet against planet in the Twitter poll show-down: ExoCup!

In this episode Andrew, Hugh, and Hannah look at the rundown of …

As always, the exocast team covers a few extraordinary recent exoplanetary papers in Exocast-54 c

And excitingly we have hit 10,000! exoplanet candidates on the archive. That is a lot of potentia…

In this episode the exocast team discuss how we observe exoplanets from the ground, how different it is from space, where we put the telescopes and why.

The team start by sharing their journeys …