EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

By Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Ally Pelphrey

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Get your weekly dose of all that's new in space and astronomy with Escape Velocity Space News. The sky is not the limit, as we bring you the latest scientific discoveries and rocket launches. EVSN is brought to you by the team behind CosmoQuest at the Planetary Science Institute and features hosts Dr. Pamela L. Gay and Erik Madaus, with audio engineering by Ally Pelphrey. EVSN is supported through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CosmoQuestX.

Episode Date
The Black Hole eating star with supernova sized regrets
Sep 18, 2025
Rockets make bad neighbors
Sep 04, 2025
It came from the outer solar system
Jul 30, 2025
Volunteer Stargazers
Jul 17, 2025
2 Tales of 2 decades: Rubin Observatory and SpaceX Starship
Jul 03, 2025
When the Universe Attacks
Jun 19, 2025
Happy Space News! Aurorae, Planet 9, and weird things that make us say "it's not aliens"
May 22, 2025
A failing look at Earth, a first look at other worlds, and more
May 19, 2025
Federal Budget Cuts: An extinction-level event
Apr 25, 2025
From the beginning of the universe to the beginning of spring, it's all science
Apr 10, 2025
Space is hard: IM2 Failure, Starship 8 explosion, Mars Sample Return delays, and more
Apr 09, 2025
The Book of Mars, Star Formation, and More
Mar 13, 2025
Temperatures That Kill
Feb 20, 2025
Space stories of joy
Jan 24, 2025
Science Here & Far: The Moon, Asteroids, Dark Comets... & Dark Energy
Dec 26, 2024
Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes
Dec 12, 2024
By fire and ice: mass extinctions gone wild
Nov 28, 2024
Aerospace vs Climate Change
Nov 13, 2024
Hera and Clipper plan on getting up close with other worlds, and Black Hole News
Oct 25, 2024
SpaceX vs FAA and EPA and Cards Against Humanity
Oct 03, 2024
Planning for Asteroid Attacks, Dino Prints Cross Ocean, Viper Updates, & more
Sep 19, 2024
Mars is the future, the day the Dinos Died, a Star's Death in 3 Acts, and more
Sep 05, 2024
NASA Budget Woes May Murder Missions
Aug 14, 2024
Found: 1 Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Jul 25, 2024
JWST Reveals Star Formation Details
Jul 04, 2024
Planning to go back to the moon
Jun 20, 2024
Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)
Jun 06, 2024
Carrington 2024
May 22, 2024
Io and Juno Begin to Part Ways
May 08, 2024
Catch the (Alien) Rainbow
Apr 25, 2024
Following the Water Toward Climate Change
Apr 10, 2024
Planet Formation is (Still) Not Well Understood
Mar 29, 2024
SPECIAL SHORT: How NASA Budget Cuts Will Hurt Space Science
Mar 26, 2024
Grindavik, Iceland, and Volcanoes with Dr. Melissa Scruggs
Mar 14, 2024
Stability, Instability, Drama, and How We are Space Stuff
Mar 07, 2024
Early Black Holes Formed Before Stars?
Feb 22, 2024
Yes, Scientists DO Look at the (Dark Energy Survey) Data
Feb 14, 2024
Celebrating the Mars Robots that Could
Feb 07, 2024
The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North
Jan 24, 2024
Spooky Season Space Images
Jan 11, 2024
Making Anti-Matter... Matter
Jan 03, 2024
Whales and (Possible) Space Whales
Dec 29, 2023
Blast From the Past: Watch the Annular Eclipse on October 14!
Dec 21, 2023
Solar Cycle to the Maximum, 2025
Dec 13, 2023
Planetary Formation Leads to Strange New Worlds
Dec 06, 2023
It's Not Aliens (We Also Want Aliens)
Dec 03, 2023
The Volcano That Could... But Didn't
Dec 01, 2023
More (Failed) Observations of Dark Matter
Nov 22, 2023
A River Runs Through It - Mars and Titan
Nov 20, 2023
Satellite Constellations and Early Warning Systems
Nov 15, 2023
The Universe is (Still) Trying to Murder Us
Oct 26, 2023
Once and Future Life on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Oct 25, 2023
Earth Science is Planetary Science
Oct 24, 2023
A New Space Race?
Oct 06, 2023
The History of Life As We Know It
Oct 04, 2023
Meteors, Meteor Showers, and their Parent Bodies
Sep 12, 2023
SETI and the Very Large Array
Sep 11, 2023
Do Not Look Directly at this Podcast
Aug 22, 2023
In Venus VERITAS
Aug 17, 2023
Pareidolia, Pattern Matching, and AI Art
Aug 04, 2023
The Search for Life on Other Worlds
Jul 27, 2023
Will Asteroid 2023 DW Collide with Earth in 2046? (All signs point to no.)
Jul 06, 2023
Is 2023 the Year of Io?
Jun 22, 2023
Bring on the JWST Science Results
Jun 09, 2023
Is This How We Get Cylons?
Jun 01, 2023
Cosmology: From Particles to Galaxy Clusters
May 24, 2023
Mass Extinction, Volcanoes, and Rings Around an Asteroid
May 18, 2023
Space science potpourri and a more hopeful look at climate change
May 12, 2023
New science from AAS rearranges our understanding of the universe
May 09, 2023
EVSN announcement for DS
Feb 28, 2023
Dealing with Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Oct 20, 2022
JAXA Triggers Flight Termination of Launch
Oct 20, 2022
BONUS CONTENT: Full-length interview with Jochen Grandell
Oct 10, 2022
Dinosaurs Washed Away in Largest Wave to Wrap Earth
Oct 07, 2022
Observed: It’s a Star-Eat-Star Universe
Oct 06, 2022
Firefly Makes Orbit on Second Try
Oct 05, 2022
BONUS CONTENT: Shape modeling Didymos before DART's arrival
Oct 01, 2022
Globular Clusters: Already Old Nine Billion Years Ago
Sep 30, 2022
BONUS CONTENT: Full-length interview with Amanda Sickafoose - Dimorphos impact captured by South African telescope
Sep 30, 2022
Confirmed: 68 New Gravitational Lenses
Sep 29, 2022
DART Mission Successfully Boops Dimorphos
Sep 27, 2022
Quasar’s Light Echoes After 6.73 Years
Sep 23, 2022
NASA Tries Fuel Tanking the SLS Again
Sep 23, 2022
Bringing Telescopes to Students in Libya
Sep 22, 2022
Being a Star: Nature vs Nurture
Sep 20, 2022
Saturn’s Rings are Made of a Broken-up Moon
Sep 17, 2022
Mount Sharp, Mars, Shaped by Water and Wind
Sep 15, 2022
BONUS CONTENT: Full-length interview with DART investigation team member Jian-Yang Li
Sep 15, 2022
How to Build a Supervolcano in Just Four Million Years
Sep 14, 2022
Water Worlds May Hide Water Underground Summary
Sep 09, 2022
Climate Change Melts Glaciers, Greens the Arctic
Sep 09, 2022
SEASON PREMIERE: Catching up on news and rockets!
Sep 06, 2022
Machine Learning Pinpoints Martian Meteorite Origin
Jul 15, 2022
All the Rockets and All the Rocks
Jul 13, 2022
JWST Releases First Five Science Images
Jul 12, 2022
Solar System Rotation Rate Due to Subatomic Interactions
Jul 08, 2022
Electrons Swirl Like Water Under Specific Conditions
Jul 07, 2022
Infrared Telescope Balloon Mission Gets Mini-JWST Mirror
Jul 06, 2022
Cosmic Manatee with a Particle Accelerator on its Head
Jul 05, 2022
Comet Storm Due in One Million Years
Jul 01, 2022
Looking for Life in All the Strange Places
Jul 01, 2022
Climate Change: African Lakes Sequestering Carbon Dioxide
Jun 29, 2022
Black Hole Caught Eating Faster Than Normal
Jun 28, 2022
Jupiter’s Atmosphere Contains Metals From Planetesimals
Jun 24, 2022
Martian Sediments Reveal History of Flowing Water
Jun 23, 2022
Bennu’s Boulders Act as Body Armor
Jun 22, 2022
Pulsar Found Racing Through Supernova Remnant
Jun 21, 2022
Wobbling Star Produces Fastest Nova Ever Discovered
Jun 16, 2022
Rogue Black Hole Possibly Found in Milky Way
Jun 15, 2022
Understanding Space with Gaia Data Release 3
Jun 14, 2022
New Method Finds Four Brown Dwarfs
Jun 10, 2022
Second Repeating Fast Radio Burst Discovered
Jun 09, 2022
Quasars Help Pinpoint the End of Reionization Epoch
Jun 08, 2022
Found: Dying Galaxies Containing Active Black Holes
Jun 07, 2022
A Trio of Mars Papers Provides Two Explanations to Different Questions
May 27, 2022
Tau Herculids Meteor Shower Could Be Meteor Outburst
May 26, 2022
Chaos Reigned in Early Solar System
May 25, 2022
Pulsars as the Particle Accelerators of the Universe
May 24, 2022
Hubble Observations Make For a More Precise Hubble Constant
May 21, 2022
Galaxy Used as Cosmic Telescope to Peer Back in Time
May 19, 2022
Supernova Evidence Found in Comet Fragment
May 19, 2022
Astronomers Map Interstellar Clouds in Three Dimensions
May 18, 2022
Plants Successfully Grown in Lunar Soil
May 13, 2022
Event Horizon Telescope Releases First Image of Sgr A*
May 13, 2022
Found: Metal-rich Star. Parents Being Sought.
May 11, 2022
Active Black Hole’s Surge in Brightness Due to Magnetic Flip
May 11, 2022
Hubble Discovers Star Hidden by Companion’s Supernova
May 06, 2022
Newly Found ‘Black Widow’ Binary Has Third Companion
May 05, 2022
May the Fourth Be With You
May 04, 2022
Differences Fall Away Like Sand on Titan
May 04, 2022
Thirty Comets Spotted Orbiting Alien Star
Apr 29, 2022
Martian Volcanoes Once Chose Violence
Apr 28, 2022
Stellar Death Just Got More Lit
Apr 27, 2022
New Fossil Data Shows Cascadia’s Dangers
Apr 26, 2022
Seafloor Spreading Slowing Globally
Apr 15, 2022
Earlier Bacterial Life May Have Formed Far Earlier Than Thought
Apr 15, 2022
An In-Depth Look at Recent Mars Science And Exploration
Apr 14, 2022
New Analysis Reveals W Boson Particle Far Heavier Than Expected
Apr 13, 2022
Climate Change Affects the Birds and the Bees
Apr 06, 2022
Protoplanet Image Supports Alternate Formation Theory
Apr 05, 2022
Ice Mounds Abound in Martian Craters
Mar 31, 2022
Hubble Finds Farthest Star Ever Spotted
Mar 30, 2022
How Atmospheric Methane Could Be a Sign of Life
Mar 29, 2022
More From ESA’s Gaia: Weird White Dwarf News
Mar 25, 2022
ESA’s Gaia Observatory Dates Milky Way’s Evolution
Mar 24, 2022
Rubble Pile Asteroids May Be Extinct Comets
Mar 23, 2022
Earth’s Climate Proves More Resilient Than Thought
Mar 22, 2022
Long-Awaited Rollout of the First Space Launch System
Mar 19, 2022
Using the Moon to Detect Time-Space Changes
Mar 17, 2022
Several Kepler Planets Turn Out to be Small Stars
Mar 16, 2022
Earthquakes Can Affect Plate Tectonics in a Feedback Loop
Mar 15, 2022
Magnetic Fields Help Find Ocean Worlds
Mar 11, 2022
Science of the Weird: Black Holes, Astronaut Blood, and Alligators
Mar 10, 2022
Happy 20th Birthday to Hubble’s ACS Instrument
Mar 09, 2022
Special Edition: Space Science and the Russia-Ukraine War
Mar 05, 2022
Climate Change - Tsunami, Arctic Sea Ice, and Rising Temperatures
Mar 03, 2022
Pretty Pictures, Strange Exoplanets, and a New GOES Satellite
Mar 03, 2022
Black Holes, Fast Radio Bursts, Dinosaurs and Rockets
Mar 02, 2022
Lasers, Life, and Looking at Cosmonaut Brains
Feb 18, 2022
Science is the same, every where, every when
Feb 17, 2022
Theory and Observation combine to update galaxies and stars
Feb 17, 2022
Space Junk Hitting the Moon is not From SpaceX
Feb 15, 2022
Old Falcon 9 Stage Reenters Over Mexico
Feb 14, 2022
Distant Galaxies Found Lifeless Within Ancient Cluster
Feb 10, 2022
Latest Batch of Starlink Satellites Doomed by Solar Storm
Feb 09, 2022
Mars Could Have Supported Life Longer Than Thought
Feb 08, 2022
Moons May Be Beneficial to Life Beyond Earth
Feb 05, 2022
Rising Oxygen Levels of Past Earth May Help in Search for Life
Feb 04, 2022
Indigenous North American Stories Point to Comet Explosion
Feb 02, 2022
SpaceX Launches Italian Radar Satellite
Feb 01, 2022
Early Mars Volcanoes Could Have Been Habitable to Microbes
Jan 28, 2022
Newly Discovered Bright Transient Radio Source is a Mystery
Jan 27, 2022
Origin of Earth’s Water: A New Hypothesis Has Entered the Chat
Jan 26, 2022
The Curious Case of the Brown Dwarfs at 14 Herculis
Jan 26, 2022
Gemini South Observes Young, Meandering Stellar Jets
Jan 21, 2022
An In-Depth Look at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption
Jan 20, 2022
Carbon Molecules on Mars Open New Mystery
Jan 19, 2022
Milky Way’s Stellar Streams Highlight Dark Matter
Jan 19, 2022
Another Possible Exomoon Discovered
Jan 14, 2022
China Lander Detects Water on the Moon
Jan 11, 2022
Over 70 Free-Floating Planets Discovered in Region of Milky Way
Jan 08, 2022
JWST and the 30 Days of Terror
Jan 07, 2022
Rocket Roundup for January 5, 2022
Jan 05, 2022
A Look Back at Our Favorite 2021 Stories
Jan 05, 2022
Rocket Roundup for December 22, 2021
Dec 22, 2021
JWST Launch Still Scheduled for Christmas Eve
Dec 21, 2021
Sublimating Nitrogen Responsible for Pluto’s Icy Polygons
Dec 17, 2021
Massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica at Risk of Collapse
Dec 16, 2021
Rocket Roundup for December 15, 2021
Dec 15, 2021
New, Deep Images of Milky Way’s Black Hole Show Stars Moving
Dec 14, 2021
Overlooked Exoplanet Found by Citizen Scientists
Dec 10, 2021
Q-balls Knock Matter Into Dominance Over Antimatter After Big Bang
Dec 09, 2021
Rocket Roundup for December 8, 2021
Dec 08, 2021
40 Hours of Observations Finds No Dark Matter in Galaxy AGC 114905
Dec 07, 2021
Lightweight Mars-sized Planet Found in TESS Data
Dec 04, 2021
Earth’s Orbital Changes Possibly Influenced Biologic Evolution
Dec 02, 2021
Rocket Roundup for December 1, 2021
Dec 01, 2021
301 Exoplanets Added to Kepler Mission’s Total via Deep Learning
Nov 30, 2021
Science is part of society
Nov 19, 2021
ALMA Data Helps Confirm Mechanism Behind Gas Stripping of Galaxies
Nov 18, 2021
Rocket Roundup for November 17, 2021
Nov 17, 2021
Quasi-satellite of Earth has Lunar-like Material
Nov 16, 2021
2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nov 16, 2021
Rocket Roundup for November 10, 2021
Nov 10, 2021
Hubble Working Again, Landsat 9 Releases Images, Crew 2 Returns
Nov 09, 2021
Astronomers Discover 63 Galaxies in Protocluster
Oct 29, 2021
Atmospheric Composition of Distant Hot Jupiter Measured
Oct 28, 2021
Rocket Roundup for October 27, 2021
Oct 27, 2021
Searching for Planets: New Mission Goes Rogue; Possible Extragalactic Planet Found
Oct 26, 2021
Early Universe Star Formation Came in Bursts
Oct 21, 2021
Rocket Roundup for October 20, 2021
Oct 21, 2021
News Roundup: A Post-Hiatus Look at Stories We Missed
Oct 19, 2021
Perseverance Images Confirm Jezero Crater as Ancient Lake
Oct 08, 2021
Moon Rock Samples Show Signs of Late Volcanism
Oct 07, 2021
Rocket Roundup for October 6, 2021
Oct 06, 2021
Pluto’s Atmosphere Freezing Out as Pluto Moves Away
Oct 05, 2021
Climate Change: Oxygen, Dinosaurs, Ice, and Earth
Oct 01, 2021
Large Comet Discovered; Won’t Get Past Jupiter
Sep 30, 2021
Rocket Roundup for September 29th, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
Cosmic Billiards Leads to Inner Planetary Growth
Sep 28, 2021
Clouds Detected on Exoplanet WASP-127b
Sep 24, 2021
Six Early, Massive, “Dead” Galaxies Found in Hubble Data
Sep 23, 2021
Rocket Roundup for September 22nd, 2021
Sep 22, 2021
Penguin Poo Reveals Past Populations
Sep 21, 2021
Dark Matter Delays Supernova Signal
Sep 17, 2021
Supervolcanoes Remain Active Post-Eruption Longer Than Thought
Sep 16, 2021
Rocket Roundup for September 15, 2021
Sep 15, 2021
Early Cambrian Formation Hides Multicellular Algae Fossils
Sep 14, 2021
Simple Physics Explains Diamond Shapes of Ryugu and Bennu
Sep 09, 2021
Rocket Roundup for September 8, 2021
Sep 08, 2021
New Class of Exoplanet Could Accelerate Search for Life
Sep 07, 2021
Small, Violent Faults Possibly Led to Grand Canyon’s Missing Rocks
Aug 21, 2021
Triangle Singularity Effect Finally Observed in CERN Data
Aug 19, 2021
Rocket Roundup for August 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021
Magnitude 7.2 Earthquake Strikes Haiti to Devastating Effect
Aug 17, 2021
Evidence for Icy Crust Found at Ceres’ Occator Crater
Aug 13, 2021
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Finds Bennu Collision Risk Nearly Nonexistent
Aug 12, 2021
Rocket Roundup for August 11th, 2021
Aug 11, 2021
Chandra X-ray Observatory Captures Light Echoes Around Black Hole
Aug 10, 2021
NASA’s TESS Maps Symphony of Pulsating Red Giant Stars
Aug 06, 2021
NASA Identifies Possible Lunar Mantle Rocks on Lunar Surface
Aug 05, 2021
Rocket Roundup for August 4th, 2021
Aug 04, 2021
Rough Lunar Surface Provides Safe Haven for Water Ice
Aug 04, 2021
New Research Say Clays Are What’s Beneath Mars’ South Pole
Jul 30, 2021
Light Observed From Behind Black Hole for First Time
Jul 29, 2021
Rocket Roundup for July 28, 2021
Jul 29, 2021
Hubble Detects Water Vapor in Ganymede’s Atmosphere
Jul 27, 2021
InSight Lander Reveals Structure of Mars
Jul 23, 2021
Hubble Returns to Observations with Oddball Galaxies
Jul 22, 2021
Rocket Roundup for July 21, 2021
Jul 21, 2021
Fossilized Remains of Hydrothermal Microbes Found
Jul 16, 2021
Rogue Planets Found Near Milky Way’s Core
Jul 16, 2021
Rocket Roundup for July 14th 2021
Jul 14, 2021
Impact Gardening Churns Surface of Saturn’s Moon Europa
Jul 14, 2021
Latest Observations Close Standard Model Gap
Jul 01, 2021
Rocket Roundup for June 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
Two Neutron Star - Black Hole Mergers Detected
Jun 29, 2021
Dinosaurs May Have Lived in the Arctic Year-Round
Jun 25, 2021
SOFIA Telescope Captures High-Resolution Images of Stellar Nursery
Jun 24, 2021
Rocket Roundup for June 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021
Eccentric Minor Planet to Make Close Pass to Saturn’s Orbit in 2030
Jun 23, 2021
NASA Working to Restore Hubble Telescope’s Payload Computer
Jun 19, 2021
Craters in Northern Canada Offer Clues to Titan
Jun 18, 2021
Rocket Roundup for June 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021
Black Holes Can Clear Way For Star Formation
Jun 15, 2021
Stellar Siblings Found and Both Have Planets
Jun 11, 2021
Solar Systems Vary From Star Type to Star Type
Jun 10, 2021
Rocket Roundup for June 9, 2021
Jun 09, 2021
New Measurements Released From the Dark Energy Survey
Jun 09, 2021
Europa May Have Enough Heat for Seafloor Volcanoes
May 27, 2021
Rocket Roundup for May 26, 2021
May 26, 2021
Quantum Entangled Drums Beat in Perfect Synchrony
May 25, 2021
Milky Way Was Mostly Formed Earlier Than Expected
May 21, 2021
Zhurong Lander Returns Images From Martian Surface
May 20, 2021
Rocket Roundup for May 19, 2021
May 19, 2021
Supernovae and Galaxies Being Used to Solve Astrophysics’ Biggest Questions
May 18, 2021
Scientists Generate 3D Model of Planetary Nebula From New Data
May 14, 2021
Tiny ‘Unicorn’ Black Hole Found in Milky Way is Closest One to Earth
May 13, 2021
Rocket Roundup for May 12, 2021
May 12, 2021
Discovery of Twin Supernovae Could Open Up Dark Energy Experiments
May 11, 2021
Saturn’s Rings and Magnetic Fields Help Understand Planet’s Interior
May 07, 2021
Strange Supernova Appears Cool Before Exploding
May 06, 2021
Rocket Roundup for May 5, 2021
May 05, 2021
Rare Triple Tsunami Recorded Near New Zealand
Apr 30, 2021
Fourteen Gamma Ray Sources Are Possibly Stars Made of Antimatter
Apr 29, 2021
Rocket Roundup for April 28, 2021
Apr 28, 2021
End-Permian Extinction Lasted Ten Times Longer on Land Than in Water
Apr 27, 2021
Percy Rover’s MOXIE Extracts Oxygen From Atmosphere
Apr 23, 2021
Star Formation Occurs in Competitive Environment
Apr 22, 2021
Another Potential Dark Matter Particle Isn’t Found
Apr 21, 2021
Exoplanetary Atmospheres and How to Understand Them
Apr 21, 2021
Rocket Roundup for April 21, 2021
Apr 21, 2021
X-ray Surges Found Along With Radio Bursts From Crab Nebula
Apr 19, 2021
Rocket Roundup for April 14, 2021
Apr 16, 2021
Strong Evidence Found That Muons Deviate From Standard Model
Apr 14, 2021
Not Surprising Anyone, Satellite Proliferation Contributes to Light Pollution
Apr 13, 2021
Rocket Roundup for April 7, 2021
Apr 08, 2021
The Tibet ASγ Experiment Finds Evidence of PeVatrons
Apr 07, 2021
“Missing” Matter Found in Intergalactic Space
Apr 02, 2021
Event Horizon Telescope Captures New Image of Black Hole in M87
Apr 01, 2021