Were fitting in one more episode this week, before Fraser heads off to Costa Rica for a week. Our next episode will record on Dec. 23, 2016. We usually record Astronomy Cast every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern / 8:30 PM UTC (20:30 GMT). You can watch us live on AstronomyCast, []

Join us as we try to finish the interrupted episode Coming Home from Mars! Landing on the surface of Mars is very difficult. In fact, its probably the toughest planet to land on in the whole Solar System. Today well talk about what its going to take to get to and return from Mars! We []

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Hey folks, just letting you know that due to Fraser being at conference this week, we wont be recording an Astronomy Cast any time. Unfortunately, our last show was interrupted by a power outage, and well try to get back together to finish that one on Monday, 12/5. We will keep you posted as info []

Note This episode was interrupted due to a power outage on Frasers end. Theyll reschedule to finish episode on 12/5 (most likely Fraser is traveling this week!), and well put the pieces together when we have them and release as audio podcast! Landing on the surface of Mars is very difficult. In fact, []

When Elon Musk announced plans to send humans to Mars, he conveniently left out one important aspect. How are we supposed to survive on a place this hostile to life? Seriously, Mars sucks, and its going to take some impressive techniques and technologies to make it on the Red Planet. We usually record Astronomy Cast []

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We begin a miniseries on Mars. How many episodes will we do? Who knows? But we start today with a discussion of the two Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos. We usually record Astronomy Cast every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern / 8:30 PM UTC (20:30 GMT). You can watch us live []

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Did you hear that Dark Energy doesnt exist any more? Neither does Dark Matter? It turns out that NASA recalculated the Zodiac and now youre an Ophiuchan! Science is hard enough, but communicating that science out to the public when there are publications hungry for traffic is even harder! Heres how to parse the click-bait []

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I hate to tell you this, but that meat computer in your skull is constantly betraying you. Dont worry, weve all got the same, but fortunately, scientists have learned how this happens, and can help us make sure our science, and lives dont suffer because of it. (more)

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Have you ever noticed spacecraft missions have some pretty cool names? How does anyone decide what to call these things? (more)

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It turns out that nature figured out how to use electricity long before humans did. Lightning storms are common across the Earth, and even the Solar System. What causes this electricity in the sky, and how can science use it? We usually record Astronomy Cast every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern []

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