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Do "Grabby Aliens" Solve The Fermi Paradox?

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The Question That Keeps Me Awake At Night

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The Signatures of Alien Life… or Not | Tiffany Jansen

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Jupiter: Friend or Foe? | Elisa Quintana

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Climate Emergency? Global Sea Ice at Anomalously Low Levels

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Proxima b QandA - is Proxima b tidally locked?

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Interstellar Propulsion Technologies - RANKED!

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How often does life start on other worlds?

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IT'S HAPPENING!! RIGHT NOW!

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Why Going Faster-Than-Light Leads to Time Paradoxes

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1000 Subs Thank-you + Channel Mission

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JWST Reveals Exoplanets As Never Seen Before

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The Odds of Life - THIS CHANGED MY MIND

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How Many Planets in the Universe? | Part 2: Our Universe

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Can We Engineer The Sun?

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Proxima b: Transits, Habitability and How to Get There!

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A Chat with "Space with Sarah"

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Why I Don’t Buy The Dark Forest Hypothesis

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From Wobbles to Worlds - Discovery of The Exoplanet Edge!

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Some Bad News

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Could A.I. Replace Scientists?

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How we know that the Earth's climate is changing

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The Kepler Revolutions

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Did Astronomers Just Prove Dark Energy is an Illusion?

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Ask Me Anything Million Subs Special

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What is an Alien Megastructure?

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Why Finding Earth-Sized Planets is Hard

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How Game Theory Can Help Us Find Aliens

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The Ambiguity Problem

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Red and White Dwarfs QandA

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Why Exomoons Are So Important

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Can Moons Have Moons?

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Can We Save Ourselves?

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Earth Over The Next Billion Years

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Polluted Dead Stars

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The Strangest Idea in Science: Quantum Immortality

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The Doomsday Argument | When Will Civilization End?

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An Idea So Crazy It Might Just Work...

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Shocking Result from DESI Stuns Cosmology

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Project Starshot | New Research on Relativistic Light Sails

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Are UFOs Legitimate Science?

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Juno Explained

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A Tale of Scientific Integrity

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In Defense of Science

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Classifying Worlds

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The K2-18b Video You've Been Waiting For

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The First Civilization to Emerge in the Galaxy

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Could Quark Stars be the Engines of Self-Replicating Strange Matter?

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Proxima Planet Hunt

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The Most Mysterious Star | Prof Jason Wright

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Could 3I/ATLAS Be Technological?

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JWST Surveyed a Jupiter-like Exoplanet for Exomoons: Results

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Why Intelligent Life May Be Impossible Around Most Stars

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A Cloaking Device for Planets QandA

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Could We Detect the Death Star?

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An Event So Deadly it Makes Parts of the Galaxy Inhospitable

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How Many Planets in the Universe? | Part 1: Our Galaxy

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The First Exoplanet Claim: Captain William S Jacob

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Our First Contact with Aliens Will Be Their Last Words

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Einstein's (small) mistake

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The “Crisis in Cosmology” EXPLAINED

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Is Time an Illusion? | Prof Sean Carroll

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Will We Run Out Of Lithium?

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Disk Detectives

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A Machine That Can Predict Exoplanets

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Is Moore's Law Ending?

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Why We Might Live in a "Barely Habitable" Universe

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A Cloaking Device for Planets

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The Dawn of Immortal Space Telescopes

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The Truth About JWST Detecting Alien Life...

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New Discoveries on Wormholes Are Changing Everything

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Bayesian Worlds

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My Thoughts on Artemis II

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Exomoons and Earth Twins QandA

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The Habitable Zone: Undergraduate Outreach Project

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Why We Might NEVER Detect Alien Life

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Discovery of a Jupiter Twin: QandA

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We're Finally Unlocking the "Cosmic Shoreline"

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How to Characterize Proxima b's Atmosphere

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Is Messaging Aliens a Bad Idea?

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Why Starship Could Transform Astronomy

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How Thermodynamics Holds Back Negative Carbon Tech

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What's Stopping Us From Building a Warp Drive?

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Why Technological Civilizations Might Be Insanely Rare

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Where are the exomoons?

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The Problem With "The Rare Earth Hypothesis"

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Why Finding Aliens Could Doom Humanity

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Eyeball Earths

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What the Hell Happened to Venus?

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Discovery of a Jupiter Twin!

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The Genius Who Thought Aliens Lived in the Sun

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The Fate of Our Sun

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The Star That Shouldn't Exist

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The Ultra-Cool Dwarf: TRAPPIST-1 | Elisabeth Newton

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Listening for Alien Civilizations at a Temporal "Waterhole"

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Some Good News

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Outlasting the Universe

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The Wow! Signal After 45 Years

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Does Life's Early Appearance Mean it's Easy?

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How Does ChatGPT Do on a College Level Astrophysics Exam?