exocast

This month Hannah, Hugh, and Andrew chat with Dr Sarah Casewell about her work on irradiated brown dwarfs. Sarah is an Earnest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Leicester where she has spent he…

In the final of three mini-exocasts we will release this month, we cover some of the notable happenings in exoplanet science over the past month.

On this episode we cover new planets from the TES…

On this episode we ask the question: Can we EVER travel to an exoplanet?

This has two interpretations. First who is we, and second what does ever mean? To think about this question we discuss th…

This month Hugh, Hannah, and Andrew chat with Natalia Guerrero, who works in the office of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is run out of MIT’s Kavli Institute. Natalia is the…

Our final bite-size episode for this month features Andrew, Hannah, and Hugh chatting with Dr Stephen Kane, Associate Professor of Planetary Astrophysics in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sc…

In the first of three mini-casts this month, we discuss all the recent exoplanet news from December 2019 & January 2020.

That includes a temperate world around TOI-700d; Proxima Centauri c; three…

On the 39th episode of exocast:

• Andrew chats with UC Irvine’s radial velocity expert (and occasional planet-killer) Dr Paul Robertson in the Exocast Studio.
• Hannah outlines how the 2019 ExoCup is …

On this podcast:

• Hannah takes us to the Exoclimes V conference in Oxford to ask people what they most want to learn about outside of their area of study.
• Hugh details the four competing missions u…

• Quizmaster Hugh takes to the conference hall at the 1st TESS Science Conference (TESSCon) to test the attendees’ exoplanet knowledge!
• Andrew compiles a (not very) top secret report-out on planetary …

On the 36th episode of exocast:

• Andrew roves the conference hall at the Astrobiology Science Conference.
• Hannah goes through the ABCs of spectroscopy,
• And Hugh covers this month’s news including n…

On the 35th episode of exocast we welcome special guest Dr Thomas Haworth into the virtual Exocast Studio.

• Hannah talks with special guest Dr Thomas Haworth about planet formation in extreme env…

On the 34th episode of Exocast:

• Hugh is joined by Dr.Raphaëlle Haywood, Sagan Fellow at Harvard College Observatory, and expert in disentangling the signal of planets and their host stars in radi…

On the 33rd episode of Exocast:

• Andrew is joined by NASA Ames’ Dr. Jessie Dotson – K2 project scientist, former head of Kepler’s Guest Observer office, and planetary defence specialist;
• Hannah tou…

On the 32nd episode of Exocast:

• Hannah is joined by Dr Joanna Barstow, UCL’s exoplanetary atmosphere expert, recent astro-mum, and huge fan of “JWST: The Musical”*.
• Hugh transfers the podcast to T…

On the 31th episode of Exocast:

• Hugh is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Science Journalist Lee Billings a writer for Scientific American and author of “5 billion years of Solitude”.
• Andre…

On the 30th episode of Exocast:

• Andrew is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Dr Jessie Christiansen from Caltech/NExSci to talk a little about her work on exoplanet demographics, catalogs, p…

• Hannah is joined by Professor Sarah Hörst from Johns Hopkins University to talk about her lab and working on haze production for solar system planets and beyond.
• Hugh…