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A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.

In honor of the impending total solar eclipse on April 8th, we present this special eclipse podcast.

Like the Hubble Space Telescope before it, the James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to change the course of astronomy.

Astronomer Caroline Morley speculates on the possibility of finding life on other planets in the near future.

A compilation from our previous episodes that we hope will help you find some solace right now: in rediscovering life, the people we're closest with and the universe.

We're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Join us as we tour the cosmos, from the microscopic to the telescopic, with four scientists studying the role of four elements—zinc, oxygen, palladium and gold—in life, the universe and everything.

What is the sound of two neutron stars colliding over 1 billion light years away?

University of Texas at Austin alumnus Alan Stern describes the challenges, and the joys, of the last first mission to a planet.

Karl Gebhardt explains the two leading ideas for what dark energy might be.