All Episodes

Episode 185: Did a Supernova Cause a Mass Extinction?, with Brian Fields

Episode 184: The Milky Way's First Fast Radio Burst, with Sandro Mereghetti

Episode 183: COVID-19 Meets the NASA Space Apps Challenge, with James Slifierz

Episode 182: Planet Nine or Black Hole One, with Jakub Scholtz

Episode 181: Reports of Betelgeuse's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, with Emily Levesque

Episode 180: Wormholes through Space and Time, with John Cramer

Episode 179: Dreams of Floating Cities, with Geoffrey Landis

Episode 178 Sibling Rivalry at the Centre of the Galaxy, with Smadar Naoz

Episode 177: The Case of the Missing Dark Matter, with Guo Chi

Episode 176: Second Genesis, with Jay Melosh

Episode 175: The Truth is Out There (at the University of Manitoba)

Episode 174: Fuzzy Dark Matter, with Lachlan Lancaster

Episode 173: Discovering an Ancient Oasis, with William Rapin

Episode 172: The Hubble Not-So Constant

Episode 171: Ploonets: When Moons Go Rogue, with Jorge Zuluaga

Episode 170: The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts, with Vikram Ravi

Episode 169: Science at the Limits (Part 2)

Episode 168: Celebrating Apollo + Science at the Limits (Part 1)

Episode 167: Current in Space + The Best of The Star Spot: Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt

Episode 166: Nanodiamonds are Forever, with Jane Greaves

Episode 165: Landing on Europa, with Cynthia Phillips

Episode 164: Jupiter's Ancient Odyssey, with Simona Pirani

Episode 163: The Ring Worlds of Saturn, with Bonnie Buratti

Episode 162: The End is Nowhere Near Nigh, with Fred Adams

Episode 161: The Boom Time of the Universe, with Rosemary Wyse

Episode 160: Boom to Bust Part 1: Before the Beginning, with Katrin Heitmann

Episode 159: Living on the Edge: Are We On the Boundary of an Expanding Universe?, with Ulf Danielsson

Episode 158: Telling Space Stories, with Rayna Slobodian

Episode 157: How We Discovered Blazars Cause Mysterious Cosmic Rays

Episode 156: The Do-It-Yourself Spacesuit, with Cameron Smith

Episode 155: Artificial Photosynthesis: Taking the Sun on the Road, with Katharina Brinkert

Episode 154: The Vatican Observatory: Astronomy and Faith in the Modern World, with Cosette Gilmour

Episode 153: A Reality Check on Terraforming Mars, with Bruce Jakosky

Episode 152: Alien Viruses, with Ken Stedman

Episode 151: New Moons of Jupiter, with Scott Sheppard

Episode 150: At the Birth of Our First Newborn Planet, with André Müller

Episode 149: The Question of Life on Mars, with David Hamilton

Episode 148: Does Canada Have a Vision for Space Exploration?, with Chuck Black

Episode 147: Postcards From Home

Episode 146: Supernovae and the Evolution of Life on Earth, with Brian Thomas

Episode 145: Can Sibling Rivalry Explain This Supernova?, with Stuart Ryder

Episode 144: A Rough Upbringing: The Discovery of Stars in the Galaxy's Core, with Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Episode 143: Planet Hunting Goes Extragalactic, with Xinyu Dai

Episode 142: Jupiter Transformed, with Scott Bolton

Episode 141: The Mysterious Origin of Superpowerful Radio Blasts, with Jason Hessels

Episode 140: How Humans Are Healing the Ozone Hole… and Might Just Solve Other Environmental Problems, with Susan Strahan

Episode 139: Can Alien Life Hitch a Ride on Space Dust?, with Arjun Berera

Episode 138: Making Contact, with Jill Tarter

Episode 137: An Alien Asteroid in Our Solar System, with Alan Stern

Episode 136: So You Want to Become an Astronaut?, with Cordell Grant

Episode 135: Studying Cosmic Alchemy with Gravitational Waves, with Michael Landry

Episode 134: Searching for Aliens All-Sky All-the-Time, with Bill Diamond

Episode 133: Discovering an Asteroid Family Unchanged Since the Birth of the Solar System, with Marco Delbo

Episode 132: Does Titan Harbour the Building Blocks of Life?, with Ravi Desai

Episode 131: Heavy Metal Explosion: The Rockstars of the Supernova World, with Matt Nicholl

Episode 130: There Are How Many More Comets!?, with James Bauer

Episode 129: Building on Gravitational Wave Astronomy, with Danny Steeghs

Episode 128: A Shocking Theory About the Multiverse, with Dan Falk

Episode 127: When Day Becomes Night, with Dan Falk

Episode 126: SpaceX: A New Paradigm for Space Exploration, with Chris Prophet

Episode 124: The Best Candidate for Life, with Jason Dittmann

Episode 123: Dark Matter Bridging the Galaxies, with Michael Hudson

Episode 122: What if the Sun had a Sibling?, with Quinn Konopacky

Episode 121: Scary Resolutions to the Fermi Paradox, with David Kipping

Episode 120: When Galaxies Collide, with Gurtina Besla

Episode 119: From Knots to Donuts: Exotic Possibilities for the Shape of Our Universe, with Paul Sutter

Episode 118: The Sun: Our Local Mystery, with Terry Kucera

Episode 117: The Universe is Going Green, with Matt Malkan

Episode 116: The Transit of Mercury, with Suzanna Nagy

Episode 115: Searching for Aliens with the World's Biggest Telescopes, with Dan Werthimer

Episode 114: The Milky Way's Dark Matter Twin, with Roberto Abraham

Episode 113: Astronomical Observatories of Ancient Britain, with Gail Higginbottom

Episode 112: Geysers on Europa, with William Sparks

Episode 111: Can Supernovae Cause Extinctions!?, with Shawn Bishop

Episode 110: Peering Into the Void, with Nico Hamaus

Episode 109: Rethinking Ancient Mayan Astronomy, with Gerardo Aldana

Episode 108: The Closest Exoplanet Could Be Habitable, with Guillem Anglada-Escudé

Episode 107: Surveying the Cosmos, with Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Episode 106: Is Our Solar System Unique? The Complex Process of Planetary Formation, with Aaron Boley

The Star Spot Episode 105: Ad Astra?, with Zachary Fejes

The Star Spot Episode 104: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate: The Dream, with Chuck Black

The Star Spot Episode 103: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate: The Ethics, with John Rummel

Episode 102: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate - Part 2: The Biology, with Olathe MacIntyre

Episode 101: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate - Part 1: The Science, with Paul Delaney

Episode 100: The Monster at the Centre of our Galaxy, with Feryal Özel

Episode 99 Pulsars and the Detection of Gravitational Waves, with Ingrid Stairs

Episode 98: What Our Beliefs About Aliens Say About Us!, With Brian Trent

Episode 97: Making Life in the Lab and Its Implications for Alien Hunting, with Lynn Rothschild

Episode 96: Did Universe's First Moments Set the Stage for Life?, with Fred Adams

Episode 95: Galaxy Clusters: The Largest Structures in the Universe, with Gil Holder

Episode 94: What Alien Intelligence Means for Humanity, with Don Lincoln

Episode 93: Will the Electric Sail Get Us to Deep Space? with Les Johnson

Episode 92: Inventing the Electric Solar Sail, with Pekka Janhunen

Episode 91: Monster Galaxies of the Early Universe, with Henry Joy McCracken

Episode 90: Discovering the Furthest Object in the Solar System, with Scott Sheppard

Episode 89: The Surprising Ubiquity of Ice in the Solar System and the Staggering Implications for Life, with David Paige

Episode 88: Two's Company: From Binary Stars to Binary Supermassive Black Holes, with Pawel Artymowicz

Episode 87: 147 Years of Astronomy Outreach, with Randy Attwood

Episode 86: When the Universe Began, with Wendy Freedman