exocast

As always, the exocast team covers a few extraordinary recent exoplanetary results in Exocast-53 c:

• First off, Hannah briefly describes the problem with (and solution to) NASA Hubble’s elderly on…

In this episode the Exocast crew are excited to talk with expert science communicator, JAXA space scientist, and master of computer simulations, Professor Elizabeth Tasker. During the hour long disc…

In Exocast-52c Hugh, Andrew, and Hannah take us through three reviews of papers that have been recently published in the planetary/exoplanet literature.

Hugh takes us through the two papers publi…

In this episode the Exocast team discuss Earth’s twin planet, Venus, and its link to exoplanetary science.

We start with an overview of the past, present and future of Venusian exploration, from…

In this episode the Exocast gang are privileged to be joined by veteran exoplaneteer Dr Mark Marley from NASA Ames. During a nearly hour-long discussion, we probe Mark’s experience of early exoplane…

In this month’s news rundown Hugh, Hannah, and Andrew provide a summary of three interesting papers that appeared on their radar during February/March 2021:

Hugh takes a look at The Chemical link…

In this months discussion Hugh, Hannah, and Andrew discuss the question: Why do we study exoplanets?

The team take a look at their own personal motivation and how they each came study exoplanets…

For the second news segment of 2021 Hannah, Hugh, and Andrew take on three papers that came out in Jan/Feb 2021

Hannah covers The Physics of Falling Raindrops in Diverse Planetary Atmospheres by …

On this months Exocast the team talks with cloud expert Diana Powell about her work studying the dust in protoplanetary disks through theoretical models of the micro-physics and applying that to clo…

For the first news segment of 2021 Hugh, Hannah, and Andrew talk through three papers from exoplanet science:

Hugh covers the Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pictoris c

Han…

In this months episode Exocasters Hugh Osborn, Hannah Wakeford, and Andrew Rushby attempt to answer the question they posed last year: What is the point of the Habitable Zone?

The term Habitable…

The #ExoCup2020 was full of wonderful and baffling surprises. The Exocast team take a look at what went on, which planets triumphed or failed, and what you did to bring this competition to life.

In this special episode after a long summer break, the Exocast team performs the draw for the upcoming Exocup – the foremost exoplanetary competition in which 32 twitter polls will comprehensively a…

This month Hugh, Andrew, and Hannah talk to astrophysicist, folklorist, and science communicator Moiya McTier. Moiya is an NSF graduate researcher at Columbia University in New York City and works t…

This month Hannah, Hugh, and Andrew go through the slew of exoplanet papers from discoveries, characterisation, and astrobiology including the following:

Discoveries:

• Buzzword alert! A mini-Ne…

In this episode, the team sits down to ponder the question how many exoplanets are there?

At first, this might seem like a relatively straightforward question that can be answered by NASA’s Exopl…

This month Andrew, Hannah, and Hugh chat with Dr Batiste Journaux (Research Associate in the Department of Earth and Space Science at the University of Washington) about all things icy and the role …

On Exocast-45d we bring you the news from across exoplanet research this month with new discoveries, characterisations, habitability and formation papers.

• In America, WFIRST has been renamed the…

On this episode we ask the question: Can we ever image the surface of an exoplanet?

Once we get all the definitions out of the way, like ‘what do we mean by map?’ and ‘what do we mean by surface?…

In this round-up of the month’s notable exoplanetary exploits, we cover all the headlines including: Proxima c (not) being directly imaged with Sphere – WASP-4b’s accelerating orbit – two new but ve…