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The astronomy and space exploration podcast
Feature Guest: Brian Fields By now we are all familiar with the theory that an asteroid brought to an end the age of the dinosaurs, a period...
Feature Guest: Sandro Mereghetti Fast radio bursts are a new mystery in astronomy. These highly energetic events of unknown origin were firs...
Feature Guest: James Slifierz The NASA Space Apps Challenge is a feverish annual hackathon engaging teams of coders, scientists and storytel...
Feature Guest: Jakub Scholtz We've long believed that membership in the solar system's planetary family was limited to those eight planets w...
Feature Guest: Emily Levesque In December 2019, amateur and professional astronomers held their breath as the red supergiant Betelgeuse star...
Feature Guest: John G. Cramer They are the stuff of science fiction, but wormholes are also the subject of intense scientific debate. Can wo...
Feature Guest: Geoffrey A. Landis When we think of terraforming, we probably envision turning the Red Planet blue. But Mars isn't the only w...
Feature Guest: Smadar Naoz We've long known that most galaxies contain at their core a supermassive black hole that can be millions of times...
Feature Guest: Guo Qi Dark matter vastly overshadows ordinary matter in our universe. Wherever astronomers turn their telescopes they find g...
Feature Guest: Jay Melosh If we should find creatures crawling around Titan or swimming under the ice sheets of Europa or Enceladus, they wi...
Feature Guest: Shelley Sweeney The University of Manitoba has just acquired the largest collection of UFO related material. Prominent Canadi...
Feature Guest: Lachlan Lancaster Quantum mechanics is strange. Until recently we could comfort ourselves with the belief that its odd proper...
Feature Guest: William Rapin Welcome to Sutton Island, here in the middle of a beautiful and rugged landscape consisting of shallow lakes fi...
Feature Guest: Sherry Suyu The Hubble constant, which measures the expansion rate of the cosmos, may not be a constant after all, and if tha...
Feature Guest: Jorge Zuluaga Astronomers have yet to confirm a single detection of an exomoon, that is a moon orb iting a planet outside our...
Feature Guest: Vikram Ravi They come to us from deep space. They last a tiny fraction of a second. They contain as much energy as the sun's...
Feature Guest: Dan Falk Scientists are finding themselves increasingly squeezed between academics sounding the limits of science and a publi...
Feature Guest: Dan Falk Today we're joined here at The Star Spot by science writer Dan Falk. We'll start today's interview with a commemorat...
Feature Guest: Brian Schmidt Today we offer a best of from our vault here at The Star Spot. We dug back to a fan favourite, our December 201...
Feature Guest: Jane Greaves Remember that nursery rhyme, "Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky?" Well they were on to somet...
Feature Guest: Cynthia Phillips In the 1970s, the Viking landers performed historic experiments aimed at detecting life in the Martian soil....
Feature Guest: Simona Pirani The planet Jupiter occupies a position today that is far from its home 4.5 billion years ago, a destination res...
Feature Guest: Bonnie Buratti The spacecraft Cassini went out in spectacular fashion, travelling through Saturn's rings for a final death di...
Feature Guest: Fred Adams If you thought the far distant future of our universe was going to be bleak, dreary and dark, well, you'd be right...
Feature Guest: Rosemary Wyse The universe is past its prime, by about 8 to 10 billion years. Sorry if you missed it. From the rate of star f...
Feature Guest: Katrin Heitmann The Astronomy and Space Exploration Society, a student group based at the University of Toronto, hosted its a...
Feature Guest: Ulf Danielsson Our universe is big. But what if all of this was just one of an unimaginably large number of bubble universes....
Feature Guest: Rayna Slobodian As we dream of space, we must remain anchored to humanity. Space exploration is a human story, and music may...
Feature Guest: Darren Grant A one hundred year old astronomical mystery may finally have been solved. Scientists have long wondered just wha...
Featured Guest: Cameron Smith One of the challenges in building a future where humans are able to explore other worlds are the massive, clum...
Featured Guest: Katharina Brinkert On Earth, we can thank the sun for making life possible. Now what if we could harness the power of the su...
Featured Guest: Cosette Gilmour The proper relationship between science and faith is a core question for the modern age. At the centre of th...
Featured Guest: Bruce Jakosky Don't shoot the messenger. The terraforming of Mars has been the dream for many of us who long for a future wh...
Featured Guest: Ken Stedman They aren't pleasant, but viruses are the most common form life on our planet. So why aren't the world's space a...
Featured Guest: Scott Sheppard On the hunt for the solar system's elusive Planet X, a team of astronomers accidentally stumbled upon the dis...
Featured Guest: André Müller Astronomers have taken their first image of an infant planet still developing around a newly formed star. Today...
Featured Guest: David Hamilton The recent discovery of a lake of liquid water beneath the Martian south pole culminates a series of stunning...
Featured Guest: Chuck Black The Canadian Space Advisory Board was tasked with developing a plan to rejuvenate Canada's declining world stand...
Today we turn our telescopes back around to study ourself. Our own solar system is undergoing a conceptual revolution. From its chaotic birt...
Feature Guest: Brian Thomas We have this impression of our planet as isolated from the rest of the universe, our lives cut off from the dram...
Feature Guest: Stuart Ryder When a massive star explodes in a supernova, it tends to gobble up all the attention. But what happens when that...
Feature Guest: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh The gravity, radiation and tidal forces at the very core of the Milky Way is kind of intense. That's why a...
Feature Guest: Xinyu Dai Last month astronomers announced the first ever discovery of extrasolar planets… in another galaxy! We've already c...
Feature Guest: Scott Bolton It's our cosmic backyard, and yet our own solar system is still full of surprises. Now it turns out we were "tot...
Feature Guest: Jason Hessels The one thing we thought we knew about fast radio blasts was that these mysterious one-off phenomena must be as...
Feature Guest: Susan Strahan While human activity is what created the ozone hole, scientists just announced direct evidence that human activ...
Feature Guest: Arjun Berera Many of you are familiar with the idea of panspermia, the theory that life spreads itself throughout the galaxy...
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! The Star Spot will be off for the next 2 weeks while our team enjoys some rest and relaxation o...
Feature Guest: Jill Tarter Alien hunting pioneer Jill Tarter often says the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a way for us...
Feature Guest: Alan Stern There's an intruder in our solar system. This fall we were invaded by the first interstellar space traveller, an e...