Each week, when we set off to do this show, we start with one core idea: We want to tell you what is new in space and astronomy… and remember Earth is a planet too.
Nov 24th: Once and Future Life on Venus, Earth, and Mars
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Nov 17th: Earth Science is Planetary Science
In this episode, we need to take one of our periodic looks at our planet’s science and understand what it means to life as we know it. But we will only look at Earth for the first two segments
Nov 10th: A New Space Race
Space science isn’t where the money is… at least not yet. Astronomy and planetary science in the U.S. are funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and a variety of smaller foundations and extremely wealthy individuals.
Nov 3rd: The History of Life As We Know It
Today’s EVSN will look at how we now work to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the geology of our planet and apply them to Mars, and exoplanets.
Oct 27th: Meteors, Meteor Showers & Their Parent Bodies
Today EVSN discuss more about meteors – including the source of the Geminids meteor shower, asteroid Phaethon – as well as hot planets, hungry black holes, and how we’re working to uncover the identity of dark matter
Oct 20th: SETI and the Very Large Array
Today we journey out to look at the super massive black hole in the core of M87, and then Beth Johnson will join us with an interview of the SETI Institute’s Dr. Chenoa Tremblay and how radio astronomers are one step closer to simultaneously looking for life and doing science with the very large array.
Oct 13th: In Venus VERITAS
For decades now, our planetary science news cycles have been dominated by Mars. No, it’s time for Venus. Lets get to know VERITAS, the mission bound to Venus.
Oct 6th: Paredolia, Pattern Matching & AI Art
Humans are the ultimate pattern matchers – at least for now. But in the future, AI can take over many task. So today we’re going to take a closer look at how art and AI look at space.
Sep 29th: The Search for Life on Other Worlds
new asteroid has been discovered with an orbit that crosses our own planet’s orbit. In general, this object and Earth are very good and not trying to occupy the same space at the same time, and we’ve managed to coexist for a fair amount of time..
Sep 22nd: Will Asteroid 2023 DW Collide with Earth in 2046?
A new asteroid has been discovered with an orbit that crosses our own planet’s orbit. However, in 2046, and for the first time in a long time, the potentially dangerous asteroids list actually gave us something to worry about.