Science

It’s summer, and it’s hot. On this episode, we get stranded on an urban ‘heat island’ and learn what people are d ...

This is a great week to watch the development of lunar phases. Start watching on Monday night, with a barely visible 1.5-day old thin cre ...

On July 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act and soon we sent men where only our imaginations h ...

How two space geeks imagine the future of trips to the stars. Rock climbing on Mars, playing baseball on the moon and skydiving th ...

Blue, dark peach, bright red, orange — thermophilic organisms make the hot springs so colorful you’ll want to grab your selfie st ...

Wildfires can create atmosphere changes around them — making raging infernos even more unpredictable and dangerous. Western Wash ...

Whether it’s an especially hot or cold day – or mild or unmemorable one – the weather reports coming through the radio, ...

The smallest star ever just found, called ELBM-J0555-57Ab, is just about the size of Saturn but 300 times as massive. That makes it just ...

Guests: Matea Gold, Sam Kean SAM KEAN’s new book says we’re all inhaling history with each b ...

Crumbs may seem harmless here on Earth, but they can be a hazard in microgravity — they could get in an astronaut’s eye, or get i ...

Physicists and engineers in New Jersey are working on a power source that can take humans far out into our solar system. We have l ...

A massive dune building project by the Army Corps of Engineers, one which Margate didn’t want to go ahead at all, is underway on Ma ...

On this date in July 1997, NASA placed the first rover on Mars. Sojourner was followed by Spirit and Opportunity, then Curiosity. It was ...