Universe Today Podcast

In this week's interview, I talk with Chris Carr, one of the co-hosts in the Weekly Space Hangout. Chris is a grad student at Columbia University, specializing in the cosmos inside and outside the Mi…

In this week's last QA of 2020, I go long answering questions about space and astronomy. I talk about the news of a radio signal received from Proxima Centauri, an update on my attempts to learn Mand…

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00:04:45 Can we know how much of the Moon is Earth and what is Theia?
00:06:41 Where did the Earth's water come from?
00:09:24 Would alien AI be friendly?
00:12:01 How far could we det…

My guest this week is the science journalist Elizabeth Howell. Dr. Howell is one of the most prolific space journalists working in the field, contributing thousands of articles across almost every sp…

In this week's live questions show, I explain why planets can remain habitable long after their stars have died, what we're going to do now that Arecibo has collapsed, how we'll explore the oceans un…

My guest this week is Alex Ignatiev, from Lunar Resources. Alex and his team are working on a rover that could build solar panels, wiring and even radio antennae out of lunar regolith. This could sup…

In this week's live questions show, I explain how amateurs can contribute to space and astronomy research, will I sign up for Starlink, and what would happen if the supermassive black hole at the hea…

Wallace Arthur is an evolutionary biologist and emeritus professor of Zoology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

His newest book is called the Biological Universe, and features the sear…

In this week's Open Space, we had a series of questions about the International Space Station. How long will it remain in orbit, and what role will it continue to play with other space stations under…

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00:01:31 How much oxygen is too difficult?
00:03:46 Do the Falcon 9 boosters really land, or does the camera always cut out?
00:04:55 Could SpaceX have succeeded without NASA?
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Dr. Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist and senior lecturer in the math department at Columbia University. He's a critic of string theory, wrote a book called "Not Even Wrong" and maintains a blog …

In this week's live QA, I talk about Elon Musk's hope of establishing a free Mars, the future of gravitational wave detectors, and what do I think about trying to live in other places in the Solar Sy…

In this week's questions show, I talk about the Dark Forest theory in the Three-Body Problem series of books. Is it a compelling answer to the Fermi Paradox? How much of a risk is dust to interstella…

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00:00:00 Start
00:04:10 Searching for exomoons
00:07:35 Why I hate embargoes
00:11:29 Discovery of water on the Moon
00:17:00 Could Spitzer target the Moon?
00:17:30 Would Jupiter's magnetosphere pro…

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05:54 Have we learned any more about Venus?
08:31 Elon Musk interview with the Mars Society
11:15 How small would Earth be as a black hole?
11:31 Could space be infinite at the Big Bang?
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This week I'll be talking Dr. Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute about his work searching the Universe for evidence of extraterrestrials.

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In this week's live questions show, I answer questions about drilling for microbes on Mars, missions that could survive the surface of Venus, and if anyone else is dissatisfied with the Big Bang.

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Black holes are already mind-bending enough. Matter and energy compressed into a region so dense that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. Places where space and time are tangled up so muc…