Comet 67/P and its spacecraft companions Rosetta and Philae have rounded the Sun and are now heading back out to colder climes. Rosetta has seen dramatic jets, chunks of ice sloughed off the comet, and…
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Another almost-Earth-like planet discovered by the Kepler mission, but still no genuine Earth twins. Zoe Landsman joins us to discuss the implications of “Earth 2.0” and whether it would be good news or terrible news…
New Horizons gobbled up an amazing amount of data during its relatively brief encounter with the Pluto system last month, and it will take many months before all that data is transmitted to the ground.…
We’re back after our mid-summer hiatus with a bit of astrophysics. Everyone loves black holes, and in “Black Hole Flasher” we talk about one that has awakened from 26 years of dormancy to spew out…
Astrophysicists get excited beyond all reason because a black hole, V404 Cygni, has just erupted for the first time in 26 years. A black hole eruption, as we learn in this episode of Walkabout the…