Category: Episodes

This is where you can listen to our podcast episodes.

March 6, 2016 / Astrophysics

Jim Cooney joins Josh and Addie to talk about the origin of galaxies and the observation of a galaxy from when the universe was but a teeny weeny baby of a universe, less than 1/12th…

February 18, 2016 / Astrophysics

We’re back with a Nobel-Prize-winning episode (in that we discuss something that will win a Nobel prize)! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, two big black holes (no jokes, please) collided…

January 23, 2016 / Episodes

Not content with being the self-proclaimed “Pluto Killer”, CalTech professor Mike Brown has now co-authored a paper hypothesizing the existence of, in his own words, “the most planet-y of planets” or “Planet 9”, in the…

January 13, 2016 / Earth

So what do floods in the southwest have to do with the price of anchovies? Join Josh, and Julie Brisset and find out in this episode of Walkabout from our guest Professor Dan Britt. But…

December 17, 2015 / Episodes

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, and hear about the mission and its discoveries from the man who made it happen. New Horizons…

November 29, 2015 / Episodes

Why is there no air on Mars? NASA’s MAVEN mission has supplied some details on how our neighbor lost what was likely a robust atmosphere comparable to Earth’s. Spoiler alert: size does matter. Mars’ diminutive…