Exoplanet Radio
Have you ever wondered what lies beyond our solar system? Are there other planets like Earth out there? How do we find them and study them? What can they teach us about ourselves and our place in the universe? If you are curious about these questions, then Exoplanet Radio is for you. We will explore the fascinating field of exoplanets, the planets that orbit other stars. We will learn about the history and methods of exoplanet discovery, the diversity and characteristics of exoplanets, the challenges and opportunities of exoplanet science, and the implications and prospects of exoplanet life. Join us on this journey of wonder and discovery, as we venture into the unknown and uncover the secrets of the worlds beyond our solar system.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Epsilon Indi Ab: A Twin of Jupiter
An international team of astronomers has directly imaged this exoplanet, one of the coldest ever seen. The team observed Epsilon Indi Ab using the coronagraph on Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. Only…
00:05:05 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
The Rogue Planets of JWST
The Orion Nebula, M42, is the largest stellar nursery close to Earth. Within this massive complex some 1300 light years away, the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled hundreds of Jupiter-sized ro…
00:04:47 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
How Far Are the Closest Exoplanets with Life?
To increase our chances of finding life on other planets, a systematic approach needs to be adopted, one that applies reasonable assumptions that maximize our success. So, an important question beco…
00:04:48 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
How Long Will Life on Earth Last?
Nothing lasts forever, stars live and die over the course of hundreds of millions to billions, and in the case of red dwarf stars, trillions of years. Planets are born from the remnants of their par…
00:04:32 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
Exoplanet Temperatures from Secondary Eclipses
Over the course of this show, we’ve talked many many times about the Transit Method for detecting exoplanets. It is simply the measure of a star's decrease in brightness as the star passes through o…
00:04:19 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
TOI 1853 b: A Baffling Planet That Defies Explanation
Meet TOI-1853 b, one of the weirdest exoplanets ever discovered! It's about the size of Neptune, but four times more massive. It orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit in just 1.24…
00:04:48 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
Biosignatures: The Search for Life Beyond Earth
In recent years, scientists have made great strides in the search for extraterrestrial life. They have discovered thousands of exoplanets. And some of them are located in the habitable zone of their …
00:04:56 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
The First Hycean World? JWST's Discovery of K2-18 b
The James Webb Space Telescope has completed observations of an exoplanet that may contain an ocean-covered surface underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. This discovery provides a fascinating glimps…
00:04:53 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Osiris: The Exoplanet That Changed Everything
On September 9, 1999, a team of astronomers from the High Altitude Observatory made a groundbreaking discovery. Using the radial velocity method, they detected a massive, Jupiter-sized planet orbitin…
00:04:40 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
A Glimpse into the Early Stages of Planetary Evolution
Deep in the cosmos, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered four new worlds orbiting a pair of young stars. These planets are providing scientists with a glimpse into a lit…
00:03:52 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
TRAPPIST-1e: The Most Habitable Exoplanet?
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky, close-to-Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone around the ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 approximately 40 light-years away from Earth in the constellation…
00:04:00 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Tidally Locked Worlds: Life in the Twilight Zone
Based on our experience here on Earth, we know life here to be tenacious and ubiquitous. Even in the harshest climates, if we look hard enough, we can usually find some sort of life there. We are h…
00:04:48 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
What is the Habitable Worlds Observatory?
Finding habitable worlds has been a driving passion since we first learned there were other planets out there, and to find them, we are going to need a dedicated instrument that does nothing else but…
00:04:00 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
TESS's Breakthrough Discovery of Long-Period Exoplanets TOI 4600 b and c
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place them at over twice as close to their star as Mercu…
00:04:40 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
Astronomers Confirm Proxima Centauri b is Not a Transiting Exoplanet
We know surprisingly little about Proxima Centauri b, but astronomers have just confirmed that it is not a transiting exoplanet. Show Notes Available at https://exoplanetradio.com/discoveries/proxima…
00:05:00 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
The Many Earth-Sized Worlds of TOI-700
Move over TRAPPIST-1, there a new system that is just as exciting. TOI-700 is a system of four rocky, Earth-sized worlds and some might be habitable Show Notes Available at https://exoplanetradio.co…
00:05:00 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Meet TrES-2b: The Planet That Reflects Almost No Light
Here is a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a planet be so black? What makes it glow like a burning ember? And what kind of weather …
00:04:00 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
How Starshades Can Help Us Find New Worlds
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and star wobbles only get us so far. They limit our abilit…
00:04:00 |
Mon 28 Aug 2023
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will Revolutionize our Understanding of Exoplanets
The next big milestone in our study of exoplanets is a telescope that can see beyond the limits of our eyes, beyond the boundaries of our solar system, beyond the frontiers of our knowledge. A teles…
00:04:00 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
Is TRAPPIST-1 c Habitable? New Webb Telescope Observations Suggest Not
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. The …
00:04:00 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
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