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
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