Dyson Spheres: The Heat Has to Go Somewhere
What if the first evidence of an advanced alien civilization isn’t a message, but a star whose energy books don’t quite balance?This week, we explore the strange history and surprisingly real science ...
13 Sep 23min
Rivers Through the Dark
Galaxies carry the evidence of their past. When the Milky Way captures a dwarf galaxy or tears apart a globular cluster, it leaves behind long, ghostly ribbons of stars called stellar streams. These s...
6 Sep 27min
Little Red Dots at Cosmic Dawn
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered hundreds of tiny red points in the early universe. They are extraordinarily compact, unexpectedly bright and strangely quiet in the X-ray and radio wavelen...
30 Aug 27min
Did the Milky Way Flip?
The Milky Way looks permanent from our place inside it, a great band of stars stretching across the night sky. But new research suggests our galaxy may once have been oriented in a completely differen...
16 Aug 35min
When Black Holes Twist Spacetime
What happens when a black hole spins? According to general relativity, it doesn't simply rotate in space, it actually drags spacetime around with it.This episode explores the strange phenomenon known ...
2 Aug 38min
Listening to the Heartbeat of the Milky Way
Most amateur astronomers spend their nights collecting light. But what if you could study our galaxy without looking through a telescope at all?In this episode, we sit down with amateur astronomer and...
19 Jul 27min
Is there a Black Hole in Our Backyard?
What if the mysterious "Planet Nine" isn't a planet at all?In this episode, we journey to the distant frontier of our Solar System to explore one of astronomy's strangest modern hypotheses: the possib...
5 Jul 21min
How Jupiter Almost Destroyed the Solar System
For generations, we've pictured the Solar System as a stable and orderly place: planets forming where they are today and quietly orbiting the Sun for billions of years. But what if that picture is wro...
21 Jun 23min
