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Here's the first installment of Countdown to JWST, a podcast that will track the mission up to launch (hopefully) later this year. Let's lig...

Was there a first cause? Can there be a event that started everything? What would such an event look like? In this episode Tony and Charlott...

This episode kicks off what I hope will be a weekly posting for the DA Show. My wife Charlotte is a Catholic theologian and philosopher who...

Remember all the commotion about the BICEP2 mission back in 2014? Cosmologist had announced the observation of polarized "B-mode" waves that...

It turns out that NASA and others have been thinking about the inefficiencies of using chemical rockets to go to the Moon, Mars and the Oute...

Let's talk about the potentially hazardous asteroid known as Apophis. In April, 2029 this 320 meter rock will get so close that it will pass...

In this podcast: an essay on whether the effort that went into making the black hole image in the distant galaxy M87 by the Event Horizon Te...

This podcast features science and technology from the Large Millimeter Telescope. Our guests Nat DeNigris and David Sanchez will be on hand...

We've known since Edwin Hubble's time that the universe has been expanding. What we've only recently learned (like, in the past 10 years or...

I'm not convinced that life is everywhere in the cosmos. It is entirely possible, based on what we know today, that we are the only life the...

Welcome to the first in a series of monthly discussions about topics in astronomy with Carol Christian, a colleague and friend of mine that...

Members of the PLANETS Foundation are working hard to secure funding for a telescope specifically designed to look for life on other worlds....

The next generation of world-class ground based observatories are being built right now. Among them, The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). Lea...

Astronomy’s Future Will Be Built: New Capabilities to Assemble in Space the Largest Observatories. Scientific performance of telescopes depe...

For decades advocates of the exploration of the Moon have argued that this will make possible subsequent exploration of Mars. But is this re...

Did you know there is an effort underway to actually see the event horizon of a black hole? Right now, astronomers around the world are proc...

NASA has for decades been assessing options to utilize the resources available in space – often on the Moon and Mars – to sustain long-durat...

The largest ground-based telescope is now being built on the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a new class of...

Had a great discussion yesterday with biologist PZ Myers about the origin of life on Earth. What is our current knowledge of how life began...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been on the forefront of astronomy discovery for decades. They operate telescopes primarily in S...

Clarke Exobelts, appropriately named after Arthur C. Clarke, are belts of satellites around and exoplanet that are in a geosynchronous orbit...

Did you know there is a commercial effort to design robotic spacecraft to go into orbit and repair/replace/remove old, broken and damaged sa...

This week we are talking with Alex Teachey from Columbia University whose recent paper using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope re...

HabEx is one of four concept missions being considered for the next generation of space telescopes. HabEx will search for rocky worlds like...

Lots of people are expressing disappointment that TESS won't be looking at the sectors of the sky long enough to see anything. I disagree. P...

Super energetic neutrinos can be formed in exotic places, for example the accelerators in the core of galactic supermassive black holes. The...

What would the planet Vulcan be like? It might be like the "super-Earth" planet orbiting a nearby star (16 light years) called HD 26965. The...

This is the second is a series of discussions surrounding the next crop of space telescope concepts being considered by the National Academy...

The ORIGINS Space Telescope is one of four concept missions designed to compete as the follow-up mission to WFIRST, which launches after JWS...

Astronomers are getting as bad as the press these days with making statements that are designed to garner attention than anything else. In t...

The Square Kilometer Array is currently being designed and construction will start soon on a radio telescope that promises to revolutionize...

Detailed scenarios for human exploration of Mars have been developed and debated for decades, although many of them have been too technicall...

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is making progress. The James Webb Space Telescope has suffered many cost overruns and delays bu...

Telescope Talk is back! Are you interested in getting started in the awe-inspiring hobby of amateur astronomy? If so, this hangout is for yo...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been the first successful step in long-duration human operations in space. If astronauts are to tr...

Is climate change inevitable on worlds with technological civilizations? Is planetary feedback from such a civilization a great filter? Our...

Astronomers believe there is an undiscovered super-Earth Sized planet lurking in our outer solar system. If it exists, then astronomers thin...