All Episodes
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures — 60 episodes
Why Do We Exist: The Nine Realms of the Universe that Make You Possible
The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World
Pictures of Distant Worlds
Dark Energy in the Universe and the Largest Telescope Ever
The Search for Life on Saturn’s Intriguing Moon Enceladus
The Amazing Vera Rubin Observatory and Its Movie of the Sky
Science at the Edge of the Solar System
New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
Copernicus 4.0: How the Views of Earth's Importance and the Search for Life are Changing
Human-Robotic Exploration from the Moon to Mars
Observing with the James Webb Space Telescope: Glimpsing the First Stars
Profound and Staggering: The Impact on Religion of the Discovery of Life around Other Stars
The Copernicus Complex: Are We Special in the Cosmos
Black Widow Pulsars: The Vengeful Corpses of Stars
Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World
The Allure of the Multiverse (with Dr. Paul Halpern)
The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them
Exploring the Gravitational Wave Universe
Water Above, Water Below: The Many Roles of Water in Making Planets Habitable
The Peril and Profit of Near-Earth Objects
SPECIAL: An Interview with Frank Drake: The Founder of SETI Science (conducted by Andrew Fraknoi)
Ashes to Ashes, Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust: The Birth and Death of Worlds
An Eclipse Double-Header: Two North American Eclipses of the Sun in 2023 & 2024 (with Andrew Fraknoi)
The First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope (with Dr. Alex Filippenko)
Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: Breakthrough-Listen Search for Intelligent Life
Spacetime Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (And How it Underlies Our Modern Understanding of the Universe)
Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability (with Dr. Tom Berger)
Is Anyone out There: The Hundred-Million Dollar "Breakthrough: Listen" Project
A Planet for Goldilocks: Kepler and the Search for Living Worlds
The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe
Colliding Neutron Stars, Gravity Waves, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements
When Mars Was Like Earth: Five Years of Exploration with the Curiosity Rover
Rubble Piles in the Sky: The Science, Exploration, and Danger of Near-Earth Asteroids
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (with Alan Stern & David Grinspoon)
Do Humans Have What it Takes to Thrive in this Universe?
A Sharper Image: Seeing Colliding Galaxies with Adaptive Optics (with Dr. Claire Max)
Cosmobiology: Recent Progress in Cosmology, Exoplanets, and the Prerequisites for Life in the Universe
Cosmology and Ambition: Losing the Nobel Prize (with Dr. Brian Keating)
Planets Under Our Feet: The Caves on Earth, Mars, and Beyond (with Dr. Penelope Boston)
Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs (with Dr. Adam Burgasser)
Charon, Pluto’s Companion: What We’re Learning from New Horizons (with Dr. Ross Beyer)
Living with a Star: A Life-friendly Planetary Environment (with Dr. Michelle Thaller)
Beyond: Our Future in Space (with Dr. Chris Impey)
Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System (with Dr. Kevin Hand)
Meet the Neighbors: Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars (with Dr. Courtney Dressing)
The Biggest Sky Survey Ever Undertaken: Exploring the Universe with the Rubin Observatory (with Dr. Phil Marshall)
Postcards from Mars: The Latest from Our Robot Explorers (with Dr. Jim Bell)
The Last Stargazers: Behind the Scenes in Astronomy (with Dr. Emily Levesque)
Will the 21st Century be the Time we Discover Life Beyond Earth (with Dr. Jill Tarter)
The Monster Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way (with Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez)
Encounter with Ultima Thule: The Most Distant Object Humanity Has Ever Explored (with Dr. Jeff Moore)
What Does a Black Hole Look Like: How We Got our First Picture (With Prof. Eliot Quataert)
A Little Talk about Aliens with Dr. Adam Frank
Planet 9 from Outer Space with Dr. Michael Brown
Black Hole Survival Guide with Dr. Janna Levin
Lick Observatory During Pandemics: 1918 and 2020 (with Dr. Elinor Gates)
The Hunt for Dark Matter in the Universe with Dr. Tom Shutt
How a Smooth Early Universe Grew into Everyone You Know (with Nobel Laureate John Mather)