AstronomyCast 416: Fireballs from Space by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

519: Transients: What They Are and Why They Matter Astronomy Cast 519: Transients: What They Are and Why They Matter by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Astronomy Cast Ep. 705: Water Worlds - Looking For Life Beyond Earth by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live January 17, 2024. Wherever we find liquid water on Earth, we find life, so it makes sense to search for water across the Universe, and hopefully we can find evidence of life. But what a…

536: Everyday Relativity Astronomy Cast 536: Everyday Relativity by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Relativity is used in more day to day situations than you may realize. In this episode, we will count (some of) the ways. This episode is brought to you live from the All-Stars Star Party in Indian Wells…

Click for next article The original, famous Earthrise image, taken on Dec. 24, 1968 by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders. (Image credit: NASA) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsl…

AstronomyCast 330: Arthur C. Clarke by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

One of the killer whale’s most distinguishing features is its saddle patch: an area of gray or white coloration behind its dorsal fin. Each killer whale has a distinct saddle patch, just as humans have distinct fingerprints. Scientists and other ...

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard OK, well, it appears Easter has crept up on all of us a little bit earlier than expected this year, so let’s just go down the list of essentials real quick to…

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461: Measuring the Weather with Satellites Astronomy Cast 461: Measuring the Weather with Satellites by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 400: The State of the Universe, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Donald Trump has his sights set on Iran’s Kharg Island. Composite: ESA/AFP via Getty Images, UPI/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Donald Trump has his sights set on Iran’s Kharg Island. Composite: ESA/AFP via Getty Images, UPI/Shutterstock Analysis ‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering f…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 667: JWST First Science by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jan 23, 2023. Astronomers came together in January to present their newest research. And not surprisingly, the winter AAS meeting was heavy on news from the James Webb Space Telescope. What were some of the n…

Staying connected online helps us keep up with the world, but the constant hum of social media can quickly turn from a tool into a source of anxiety. If you find yourself mindlessly scrolling at the expense of your sleep or focus, you've likely crossed the line from being informed to being overwhelm…

Have you run out of TV series to tackle on Prime Video ? Chances are, you're leaving some great options unwatched. You might know Amazon's streaming service best for shows like The Boys and Fallout -- and both are great -- but you shouldn't stop there if you have a subscription. The streamer is home…

AstronomyCast 345: Launch Complex 39 by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Key takeaways: The Federal Communications Commission has banned the sale of new foreign-made routers in the US. The sweeping order applies to virtually every Wi-Fi router currently available in the US market. After speaking with seven industry experts, my advice is to hold off on buying a new router…

‘Nigel Farage’s obsession with drilling in the North Sea would only keep us locked into volatile energy markets.’ Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/Reuters View image in fullscreen ‘Nigel Farage’s obsession with drilling in the North Sea would only keep us locked into volatile energy markets.’ Photograph…

531: Australian Indigenous Astronomy Astronomy Cast 531: Australian Indigenous Astronomy by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay South America, especially the Atacama Desert in Chile has become one of the best places in the world to put a telescope. It's dry, high, and the nights are clear. Today we'll talk…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 787: Evolved Stars (They're not dead yet!) By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Mar 16, 2026. Main sequence stars spend most of their time being… normal. Fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. Producing radiation. But as their stockpiles of hydrogen run out they s…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 750: Supernova Early Warning System By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Mar 31, 2025. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay When enormous stars detonate as supernovae they release a burst of neutrinos that can be the first sign of a coming explosion. Now, astro…

AstronomyCast 290: Failed Stars, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 402: Gravity Eyes - See the Invisible with the Force by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

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Strategic recruitment of international talent is helping Denmark establish itself as a research powerhouse in quantum science and technology Shared purpose Maria Cerdà Sevilla and her colleagues at Quantum DTU in Lyngby are shaping the trajectory of technology translation and commercial innovation i…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 625: End of the Year Review by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay We've reached the end of 2021 and this is the last episode of the year. Let's look back at the big space events of the last year and talk about what we're looking forward to in 2022.

445: Animals in Space Pt. 1: Insects and Arachnids Astronomy Cast 445: Animals in Space Pt. 1: Insects and Arachnids by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

The North Sea is a hard place to love. It’s not the cold, or the silty gray-brown waters that seem to suck the brightness out of the sky that make it unappealing, it’s what people have done to it over ...

Astronomy Cast Ep. 745: How We Know If Asteroids Will Attack By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Feb 20, 2025. I'm sure you've heard the news, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032. How do astronomers discover these dangerous asteroids, measure their future impact ri…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 687: Prepping for the Moon by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay We're going back to the Moon. In the next few years humans will set foot on the Moon again, ideally this time to stay. But this will be different than the Apollo era, going to the scientifically fascinating, and difficult …

When I was a teenager in the mid-1990s, I had a friend whose family owned an unimproved lot on Dabob Bay, a bay off a fjord nestled deep in the southern Salish Sea, in Washington State. My group of friends, ...

A coal-fired power plant constructed last year in in Bijie, China. Tao Liang/Xinhua/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily . This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate …

This week we continue the story of galaxy formation, learning how groups of galaxies come together to form the biggest structures around – galaxy superclusters. And when you look at the Universe at this scale, environment is everything.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Centre.

When I first see the canoe, in May, it takes a moment to distinguish the long, shapely slab of cedar from the patch of earth that has spent more than a century trying to reclaim it. Covered in moss and ...

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AstronomyCast 411: The Science of Sunset Colors by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 252: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Don't just dump unwanted clothes into the trash. Image: Olha Danylenko / Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most of us know the best way to repurpose gently used clothing is to don…

AstronomyCast 374: The Stern-Gerlach Experiment by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 307: The Pacific Ring of Fire by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 245: Calendars, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

567: When Satellites Need a House Call Astronomy Cast 567: When Satellites Need a House Call by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Space is really far away, so when you send a satellite out into the void, that's pretty much the last you're going to be able to work on it. And if anything goes wrong, too ba…

The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it's hard to describe in words. Back then, the cosmos wasn't filled with stars and galaxies but with a boiling soup of quarks and gluons, with a few microscopic black holes thrown in, occasionally detonating lik…

By analysing the Liouville gap in imaginary time, scientists reveal universal phase‑transition behaviour in both ground and finite‑temperature states
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AstronomyCast 308: Climate Change by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

When you're finished with work and you need something to do, where do you turn your attention? Some folks build models, others do some coloring. Some relax and watch TV. But if you're looking for something to pour your free time and attention into, it can be difficult to settle on one thing, or even…

AstronomyCast 242: The Turino Scale, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Astronomy Cast Ep. 599: Zodiacal Light by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Pamela has told us in the most flowery terms about the diffuse dust across the inner solar system left over from the formation of the inner planets. well, it turns out she was wrong. Super wrong. Time to update!

Knossos is a city built by the Minoans. It has a palace the size of two football fields. (Image credit: SCStock via Shutterstock) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Sign…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 698: Insights Into the Universe by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay From Nov 5, 2023. How the time flies. It's been over a year since JWST went operational, with other missions joining the fun. What new insights have we gained about the Universe thanks to these powerful new tools? Rec…

Streamed live on May 22, 2020. So we're familiar with regular binary stars. Two stars orbiting each other. Simple. Of course the Universe has come up with every combination of things orbiting other things, and this week we look at some extreme examples.

Martian lightning Artist’s impression of an electrical discharge on Mars. (Courtesy: Milan Machatý, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences) Researchers in the Czech Republic say they may have observed the signature of a …

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard Sometimes, kind, selfless people don’t realize they’re actually allowing people to disrespect them. Simple gestures like apologizing for no reason or having w…

A bilby at Mallee Cliffs national park. Numbers in the breeding trial have climbed from 50 to almost 2,000. Photograph: Brad Leue/Australian Wildlife Conservancy View image in fullscreen A bilby at Mallee Cliffs national park. Numbers in the breeding trial have climbed from 50 to almost 2,000. Photo…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 662 - Looking Ahead at New and Recycled Missions by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Last week we talked about the missions we're saying goodbye to. This week, we're going to talk about some upcoming missions to say hello to. Some are brand new ideas, others are, uh, recycled. This vi…

476: The Overview Effect Astronomy Cast 476: The Overview Effect by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 302: Planetary Motion in the Sky by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 276: XMM Newton, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Astronomy Cast Ep. 610: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Non-Sentient Edition by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Are we alone in the Universe? It's one of the biggest scientific questions we can possibly ask. And yet, with rovers on Mars, missions planned to visit Europa and Ganymede. Powerful t…

Article body copy We started Hakai Magazine over 10 years ago because the ocean and its coastlines needed a voice. No other outlet was exclusively covering issues at the interface of sea and land—or of the marine world in general. After all these years, most stories in the marine beat are as familia…

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard There’s no denying that Madonna is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. But, did you know that she got her “big” despite not even having a desire to be …

547: Why Astronomy Still Needs Humans Astronomy Cast 547: Why Astronomy Still Needs Humans by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Few sciences have been able to take advantage of the power of computers like astronomy. But with all this computing power, you might be surprised to learn how important a role h…

August 29, 2020, dawned clear over southwest Nova Scotia. In the cabin of his lobster boat, the Mystique Lady, Matthew Cope was chatting with the other members of his crew as they chugged out from shore. The vessel was bound ...

Astronomy Cast Ep. 772: 2025 Gift Guide By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 9, 2025. It's time once again for our annual gift-giving guide. We've got recommendations for books, movies, TV shows, games, and of course astronomy gear to satisfy the space nerds in your family. The Chris…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 586: Life As We Know It: Habitable Exoplanets & Extremophiles by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay As scientists continue to explore the Earth, they're discovering life, surviving and even thriving in extreme environments. What hints can this give us about what we might find as we sear…

How “Fire Fungi” Help Put Burnt Landscapes Back Together 03.12.2026 | Discoveries , News , Wild Life Discoveries 03.12.2026 How “Fire Fungi” Help Put Burnt Landscapes Back Together Before plants and animals recolonize after a wildfire, fungi get to work. Story by Hannah Thomasy Share Ecologists have…

So as I haven’t been able to speak the past short while, one thing I have noticed is that it is harder to communicate with others. I know what you are thinking: “Wow, who could have possibly guessed? It’s harder to converse when you can’t speak?”. Indeed, I didn’t expect it either.But how much harde…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 614: Centaurs, Comets & Asteroids by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay So there are asteroids, and there are comets. But there's an entirely separate class of objects called centaurs. But instead of half human, half horse, imagine an object that's half comet, half asteroid, but 100% in…

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints , as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle could be tough. Hope you know your animals! One o…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 640: Survey Science: Newest Projects & Results by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay There are general-purpose telescopes and missions that astronomers can use to study specific objects. And there are the survey missions that look at the entire sky, which astronomers can use to answer q…

Astronomy Cast Ep. 677: The Answer is Always Dust by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 10, 2023. Whenever astronomers discover something surprising, the answer often turns out to be dust. Dust obscuring our view, dust changing the polarity, dust warming things up, dust cooling things…

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Under cover The new transfer-learning system could be used to identify shipments of illicit nuclear materials. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Gualtiero Boffi) Machine-learning could help us use cosmic muons to peer inside large objects such as nuclear reactors. Developed by researchers in China, the techni…

AstronomyCast 335: The Photoelectric Effect by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

When to watch West Ham vs. Leeds Sunday, April 5 at 11: 30 a.m. ET (8:30 a.m. PT) Where to watch West Ham vs. Leeds West Ham vs. Leeds will air in the US on ESPN2, ESPN Plus (which is now ESPN Select) and ESPN Unlimited. See at ESPN Watch FA Cup soccer in the US ESPN Select See at ESPN See more deta…

Raising Cane’s CEO Todd Graves could go without veggies in his to-go box. More specifically, his go-to Cane’s order includes the box combo, extra toast and extra sauce—and no slaw, he said in a TikTok last month.



The fast food executive admitted he’s not a fan of coleslaw, adding “that’s why you…

AstronomyCast 328: Telescope Making, Pt. 2 by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Astronomy Cast Ep. 771: Comet Tails By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 8, 2025. With the arrival of the comet 3I/Atlas (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System), the world is getting a crash course in comets, their behavior, and of course their tails. Today we're going to tal…

Flooding in Senegal Thunderstorms bring flash-flooding in tropical regions of Africa including Senegal. (Courtesy: Steven Cole) The amount of moisture in soil – and the way this moisture is distributed – combined with wind patterns in the lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere can influence where t…

(NEXSTAR) — Do you get dizzy while looking at your phone while riding as a passenger in a car? That could be a sign of motion sickness, a common, yet complex, condition that can have varying severities of symptoms to go along with it. Managing the symptoms can involve sitting in certain seats in mov…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Crews made progress Saturday battling a smoky wildfire in southern California that broke out a day earlier and prompted mandatory evacuations. Encompassing roughly 6.3 square miles (about 16 square kilometers) in Riverside County, about 64 miles (103 kilometers) east of Los …

When Arvid Pardo, a Maltese diplomat, took the floor at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1967 and began speaking at length on international law, the room was sparsely populated. Pardo was undeterred. The deep, dark ocean, ...

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard Humanity spends an inordinate amount of time and resources building new types of guns used to do terrible things. Now, finally, it seems like a team of resear…

As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years . A lot us have asked ourselves just exactly why you’d send people out that far when the environment is so hostile and we have increasingly competent robots that could do the jobs in their place. If anyt…

AstronomyCast: Live from Balticon, with P.G. Holyfield by Dr. Pamela Gay

431: The Search for Life on Mars Astronomy Cast 431: The Search for Life on Mars by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

When a ship wrecks on an unfamiliar coastline, an already desperate situation is all the more dire. Blinded by the night, and lost, the captain and crew of the Puritan, a four-masted lumber schooner en route from San Francisco, California, ...

A federal court fight over President Trump’s plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the former East Wing of the White House has recently pulled a long-quiet project into public view: the overhaul of a military bunker buried deep underground.   “The military is building a big complex under t…

The Birds Who Call Us Home 03.24.2026 | Featured , Wild Life Wild Life 03.24.2026 The Birds Who Call Us Home In springtime in North America, purple martins spread joy as they return to their nest boxes—is that enough motivation for us to ward off an avian housing crisis? Story by Brian Payton Share …

AstronomyCast 222: The Decadal Survey, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 342: Sunsetting Spacecraft by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Astronomy Cast Ep. 636: Blowing Bubbles by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay We think of space as a vacuum, but there are regions of different density. There are winds blowing from stars and other objects that clear out vast bubbles in space, and look absolutely fantastic in pictures. And they might have…

458: The Science of Cassini Astronomy Cast 458: The Science of Cassini by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Conservation Enters a New Era 02.26.2026 | Featured , Story Packages Conservation Enters a New Era One year after the Trump administration slashed biodiversity protections at home and abroad, people and organizations are figuring out where to go from here. A four-part exploration published February …

Wild Life 03.05.2026 The Bard and the Birds The frilled collars of ruffs—and the birds’ elaborate mating rituals—are straight out of a Shakespearean drama. Photograph by Espen Bergersen Story by Sarah Milligan Share In the golden glow of the midnight sun, a ruff snaps at a mosquito. Ruffs, a type of…