Episodes

  • Exploring Earth's deep oceans and the state of commercial space

    Exploring Earth's deep oceans and the state of commercial space
    Jul 29 2025
    Co-hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong, explore Earth's oceans in a special series running this summer from NPR’s science podcast, Short Wave: Sea Camp. Plus, a look at the commercial space company sector.
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    28 mins
  • Searching for life in the clouds of Venus and creating space for birds

    Searching for life in the clouds of Venus and creating space for birds
    Jul 22 2025
    A new proposal suggests sending a spacecraft to Venus to search for gases that are often linked to biological cycles here on Earth. Plus, a look at veteran Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar's book Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight.
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    28 mins
  • A new NASA leader and searching for life on distant ocean worlds

    A new NASA leader and searching for life on distant ocean worlds
    Jul 16 2025
    The Trump Administration named Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, to be the interim NASA administrator. Plus, could life exist in an icy ocean on a distant moon within our solar system.
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    28 mins
  • Space reading recommendations and moving AI off the planet

    Space reading recommendations and moving AI off the planet
    Jul 8 2025
    Catching up on your summer reading list? How about adding one more -- a science fiction thriller series set in space? Plus, a new company is taking their design process off Earth and designing sneakers in space using AI designers and 3D printing.
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    28 mins
  • A Chilean observatory comes online. Two rovers explore the watery past of Mars

    A Chilean observatory comes online. Two rovers explore the watery past of Mars
    Jul 1 2025
    A new observatory in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is searching the skies for things like asteroids, dark matter and dark energy. What new things might it uncover about the cosmos? Plus, the rovers on Mars are exploring two craters that have evidence of past water. Could they also be home to ancient life? lead scientists closer to finding out if Mars had water flowing on its surface.
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    28 mins
  • How to have an out of this world summer

    How to have an out of this world summer
    Jun 24 2025
    With warmer weather and more free time for some, summer is a time to relax, unwind and to stargaze. Plus, another way to unwind is by reading space books like Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between
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    28 mins
  • A puzzling, pulsing cosmic phenomenon. Plus, how astronauts deal with delays

    A puzzling, pulsing cosmic phenomenon. Plus, how astronauts deal with delays
    Jun 18 2025
    Astronomers have discovered an object light-years away that’s emitting timely pulses like nothing ever seen before. Plus, the next private space crew is grounded. How are they dealing with the delay?
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    28 mins
  • Death in space

    Death in space
    Jun 6 2025
    From our cells to our universe, everything comes to an end.
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    28 mins