365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

It's hard to believe it, but we survived another trip around the Sun. Now it's time to take the whole journey all over a... Read more

We've always been fans of science fiction, but we really like our science. Today we'll talk about some books we've been ... Read more

We took a hiatus this summer, but SpaceX sure didn't, with the tests of the Starhopper prototype. Today we're going to t... Read more

Another update show, this time on the various generations of stars, let's get into it.

The updates continue. Last week we talked about dark matter, and this week we continue with its partner dark energy. Of ... Read more

As we send rovers and landers to other worlds, we have to think about the tiny microbial astronauts we're sending along ... Read more

Want to travel the world but you don't have a lot of money? No problem, your continent is drifting across the surface o... Read more

This is our second episode in a two part series where we look at Transients in astronomy. In last week's episode, we ta... Read more

Astronomy Cast will be on hiatus for July and August. Don't worry, we'll be back in September, and we might just have su... Read more

The Sun. It's a big ball of fire, right? Apparently not. In fact, what's going on inside of the Sun took us some time an... Read more

This week, we return to our starting point, where Astronomy Cast began: Pluto. 11 years on, we have a whole new apprecia... Read more

And now Cassini’s gone. Smashed up in the atmosphere of Saturn. But planetary scientists are going to be picking through... Read more

The Milky Way has gobbled up dozens of dwarf galaxies and added them to its structure. Today we're going to look at the ... Read more

Today, of course, we're going to talk about the announcement from the Event Horizon Telescope and the first photograph o... Read more

Finding planets is old news, we now know of thousands and thousands of the places. But the terrible irony is that we can... Read more

Summer is almost here, and for the northern hemisphere, that means warm nights for observing. But what to observe? We'r... Read more

2018 was an incredible year in space news. Rockets launched, landers landed, spacecraft were born and died. We learned t... Read more

Powerful observatories like Hubble and the Very Large Telescope have pushed our vision billions of light-years into the ... Read more

There are regular volcanoes, and then there are the supervolcanoes. Massive calderas of hot magma of incomprehensible s... Read more

Relativity is used in more day to day situations than you may realize. In this episode, we will count (some of) the way... Read more