EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

By Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Beth Johnson, 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 special guest interviews by Beth Johnson and audio engineering by Ally Pelphrey. EVSN is supported through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CosmoQuestX.

Episode Date
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