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EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News, 100 episodes.

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Repainted Rose, Worlds Colliding, and White Dwarfs of Unusual Size

2

Cloudy with a Chance of Brown Dwarfs: Terrestrial, Exo & Space Weather

3

No Good, Very Bad News and Some Planetary Palate Cleansers

4

On Background: The Anatomy of a Comet

5

After Hours: Making Moons and Getting Cratered with William K Hartmann

6

After Hours: Doing Big Science with Light Tools with guest Dr Danny Jacobs

7

After Hours: International Moon Day 2026 with guest Jekan Thanga

8

After Hours: Space Rocks Collected for Science with guest Dr Rhonda Stroud

9

After Hours: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions with author Trisha Muro

10

Astronomy Asks: How did you get there?

11

Tracing the hidden and revealing the past

12

After Hours: Our shape shifting Universe with author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

13

Tails SpaceX Fails, Heads We Lose the Earth

14

Chasing Chemistry: Missions measure comet & planet atmospheres

15

After Hours: Crowdsourcing Innovation with Trisha Epp

16

Astronomers: Improbability Finders

17

Uncommon Stars

18

The One With the Dark Matter

19

After Hours: Launching the small(er) things with Exolaunch CEO Robert Sproles

20

To Artemis, With Love

21

Supervolcanoes: Erupt, Refill, Repeat

22

Science in Pairs & Moon Plans Redux

23

On Background - Comets, the basics

24

Pretty Pictures & Ugly Artemis News

25

Glaciers: Going, Going…Gone

26

The sky is falling! Space Junk 411

27

JWST Makes Sense of the Early Universe

28

Astronomy Answers: What's that light?

29

When Science Results Rhyme: Exoplanets, Supernovae, and Relativity

30

Never trust a volcano & other geology tales

31

Climate Change Follows the Water

32

JWST's picture album of Baby stars, planets, moons and more

33

Giant Black Holes Cosplay as Little Red Dots

34

The Black Hole eating star with supernova sized regrets

35

Rockets make bad neighbors

36

It came from the outer solar system

37

Volunteer Stargazers

38

2 Tales of 2 decades: Rubin Observatory and SpaceX Starship

39

When the Universe Attacks

40

Happy Space News! Aurorae, Planet 9, and weird things that make us say "it's not aliens"

41

A failing look at Earth, a first look at other worlds, and more

42

Federal Budget Cuts: An extinction-level event

43

From the beginning of the universe to the beginning of spring, it's all science

44

Space is hard: IM2 Failure, Starship 8 explosion, Mars Sample Return delays, and more

45

The Book of Mars, Star Formation, and More

46

Temperatures That Kill

47

Space stories of joy

48

Science Here & Far: The Moon, Asteroids, Dark Comets... & Dark Energy

49

Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes

50

By fire and ice: mass extinctions gone wild

51

Aerospace vs Climate Change

52

Hera and Clipper plan on getting up close with other worlds, and Black Hole News

53

SpaceX vs FAA and EPA and Cards Against Humanity

54

Planning for Asteroid Attacks, Dino Prints Cross Ocean, Viper Updates, & more

55

Mars is the future, the day the Dinos Died, a Star's Death in 3 Acts, and more

56

NASA Budget Woes May Murder Missions

57

Found: 1 Intermediate Mass Black Hole

58

JWST Reveals Star Formation Details

59

Planning to go back to the moon

60

Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)

61

Carrington 2024

62

Io and Juno Begin to Part Ways

63

Catch the (Alien) Rainbow

64

Following the Water Toward Climate Change

65

Planet Formation is (Still) Not Well Understood

66

SPECIAL SHORT: How NASA Budget Cuts Will Hurt Space Science

67

Grindavik, Iceland, and Volcanoes with Dr. Melissa Scruggs

68

Stability, Instability, Drama, and How We are Space Stuff

69

Early Black Holes Formed Before Stars?

70

Yes, Scientists DO Look at the (Dark Energy Survey) Data

71

Celebrating the Mars Robots that Could

72

The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North

73

Spooky Season Space Images

74

Making Anti-Matter... Matter

75

Whales and (Possible) Space Whales

76

Blast From the Past: Watch the Annular Eclipse on October 14!

77

Solar Cycle to the Maximum, 2025

78

Planetary Formation Leads to Strange New Worlds

79

It's Not Aliens (We Also Want Aliens)

80

The Volcano That Could... But Didn't

81

More (Failed) Observations of Dark Matter

82

A River Runs Through It - Mars and Titan

83

Satellite Constellations and Early Warning Systems

84

The Universe is (Still) Trying to Murder Us

85

Once and Future Life on Venus, Earth, and Mars

86

Earth Science is Planetary Science

87

A New Space Race?

88

The History of Life As We Know It

89

Meteors, Meteor Showers, and their Parent Bodies

90

SETI and the Very Large Array

91

Do Not Look Directly at this Podcast

92

In Venus VERITAS

93

Pareidolia, Pattern Matching, and AI Art

94

The Search for Life on Other Worlds

95

Will Asteroid 2023 DW Collide with Earth in 2046? (All signs point to no.)

96

Is 2023 the Year of Io?

97

Bring on the JWST Science Results

98

Is This How We Get Cylons?

99

Cosmology: From Particles to Galaxy Clusters

100

Mass Extinction, Volcanoes, and Rings Around an Asteroid