exocast

• Hugh is joined by Daniel Angerhausen from the University of Bern/Blue Marble Space to talk exoplanet science with SOFIA and high-altit…

• Michael Gully-Santiago joins Andrew for a chat about his work on instrumentation, and with the K2 guest observer office (https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/).
• Hannah …

• Natasha Batalha joins Hannah for a chat about PandExo (the Exoplanet ETC for HST and JWST) and her work on Martian climate modelling.
• Hugh discusses all things radial…

• Jessica Spake joins us to chat about the first detection of exoplanetary Helium – around the planet Wasp-107b
• Andrew covers whether alien biology could exist in a Sha…

• Andrew chats with special guest Rus Belikov about direct imaging and Alpha Cen ;
• Hannah dives into the lakes of Titan to take us on a scuba diving adventure through a…

• Hannah and Hugh join us from the UK Exoplanet Meeting;
• Hannah chats with special guest Dr Jayne Birkby about her work on high resolution spectroscopy;
• Hugh talks abou…

• Andrew talks about the concept of panspermia;
• Hugh discusses how astronomers can observe the changing phases of exoplanets;
• And Hannah covers the exoplanetary news in…

• Hannah talks about planet formation;
• Andrew discusses the potential habitability of planets on eccentric orbits;
• Hugh disseminates a backlog of exciting exoplanet new…

• What is the ExoCup? How was it conceived? What was the result? Why was it so stressful for the Exocast crew?
• We take a voxbox from some m…

• Andrew continues his 2-parter on research into the origins of life;
• Hugh details all the numerous way that computers & software is used in astronomy, from Microsoft t…

• “Spotlights & fireflies” – what it means to be able to directly image planets and how w…

• Andrew introduces us to the origins of life studies in the first of a two-part segment.
• Hannah talks about Global Circulation Models (GCMs) and why they matter for ex…

• Hugh discusses exoplanet science in the era of extremely large telescopes.
• Hannah brings us up to speed with the outcomes of the recent James Webb Space Telescope wor…

• Andrew revisits the signals life may or may not leave in a planet’s atmosphere, taking in recent results from the NExSS biosignature workshop.
• Hugh details the pros &…

• Hannah takes us back to basics and introduce the composition and chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres.
• Andrew covers some recent updates from astrobiology, the field of…

• Hugh talks about planets in binary systems – are two stars better than one?
• Hannah discussed the importance of brown dwarfs as the intermediary between planets and sta…

• Andrew details highlights of the recent UK exoplanet meeting.
• Hugh and Andrew play “Just an Arcminute” with UK exoplanet scientists.
• Hannah sits in at the exocas…

• Hannah covers all the incredible news about the Trappist-1 system, talking us through the discovery of seven new earth-sized worlds around this nearby ultra-coo…

For your listening pleasure in Exocast-10b, the first episode of 2017:

• Hugh provides some perspective on what happens to pla…

In Exocast-9b we take a special look at SETI and the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence with expert guest Dr Duncan Forga…