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Listen to Orbital Path, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by PRX. Stream 45 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 45 episodesHello, Asteroid!
Asteroids, as the dinosaurs found out, can have big effects on life on Earth. Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid crashed into the Yuc...
Black Holes from the Dawn of Light
To make a black hole, you need to think big. Really big. Start with a star much bigger than the sun — the bigger the better. Then settle in,...
Space Lasers for the Home Planet
On September 15, 2018, the last Delta II rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force base, in California. It carried into orbit IceSat-2 — a...
Brian Greene goes to 11 — again
We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along a fourth dimension: time. Our world makes sense thanks...
The Universe of Leonard Susskind
To hear Leonard Susskind tell it, we are living in a golden age of quantum physics. And he should know. Susskind is a grandee of theoretical...
Mars Goes Organic
For a long time, probably as long as we have been gazing up at the night sky, people have been asking ourselves: Are we alone? Is there life...
Earth, Desert Planet?
Zoe is in 8th grade. She’s a student in Mr. Andersen’s Earth science class at a public school in Brooklyn. Lately, she’s been concerned abou...
Our Darkening Universe
Secrets of the universe? A glimpse of the whiteboard in the office of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess. Adam Riess was only 41...
Introducing…Telescope!
Instead of grappling with the big, cosmic questions that preoccupy adults, this week on Orbital Path we’re doing something different. We’re...
Star Death Tango
On August 17, 2017, an alert went out. Gravitational wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington state had detected a disturbance from deep s...
Ozone Disaster Redux
Scientists in 1985 discovered something that threatened the world we live in: The ozone layer had a hole in it. A big one. And this hole was...
Fireside Physics: A Solstice on Saturn?
In this darkest season of the year, Dr. Michelle Thaller and NASA astronomer Andrew Booth curl up by the fire. Gazing into the embers, red w...
From Another Star
NASA’S office of planetary defense isn’t worried about Klingons or Amoeboid Zingatularians. They worry about asteroids and comets. Like the...
Winter’s Night Sky
These days, astrophysicists like Dr. Michelle Thaller use instruments to probe the distant reaches of our galaxy, and far beyond. They use i...
Aliens Again!
We’ve got some awkward news to share, folks: The producer of Orbital Path is claiming he’s been abducted by space aliens. So this week, we’r...
Time and Space in the Kingdom of Bhutan
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan avidly guards its traditional culture. Bhutan is a nation that — instead of looking to GDP or debt ratios —...
The 11 Dimensions of Brian Greene
We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along a fourth dimension: time. Our world makes sense thanks...
Minisode 5: Scary Math
In a scary time, in a scary world, in a scary universe, NASA astronomer Andrew Booth says one of the things that frightens him most is math....
Episode 22: Journey to the Sun
Locked up on the Greek island of Crete, Icarus and his dad made wings out of beeswax and bird feathers. They soared to freedom — but Icarus...
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