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EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Ally Pelphrey

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.

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27:31

The Black Hole eating star with supernova sized regrets

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/09/18

In this week’s episode, we tell the story of a Giant Blue Star that made the terrible, terrible mistake of trying to nibble on its more evolved sibling; it’s black hole of a sibling. Folks, don’t eat the dark holes in spacetime. We also look at this week’s news, including lumpy planets, forming planets, asteroids getting up close and personal, and how Leopard spots are in style for life hunting Mars Scientists. We also have tales from the launch pad.

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33:57

Rockets make bad neighbors

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/09/04

In this week's episode, we take a look at the impact SpaceX launches from the Space Coast will have on their competitors and those living, working, and going to school near Kennedy and Cape Canaveral. We also look at a bunch of new science discoveries, including the origins of Ryugu & Bennu, the solar system shocked itself, a new supernova that blew off an unusual number of layers before exploding, and quick updates on Psyche, Juno, JUICE, and the number of moons orbiting Uranus.

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29:53

It came from the outer solar system

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/07/30

In this week's episode we take a look at all the news our outer solar system has to offer. From newly discovered outer solar system objects to intersteller comet I3/Atlas to the Peried Meteor shower, we have icy objects and absolutely no aliens (It's never aliens #IYKYK).

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34:18

Volunteer Stargazers

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/07/17

In this special episode we look at how volunteers throughout history have aided in scientific explorations and tell you how you can get involved with our latest community science projects.

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36:01

2 Tales of 2 decades: Rubin Observatory and SpaceX...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/07/03

Join us as we look at two parallel stories - the development of the Vera Rubin Observatory and the SpaceX Starship rocket. Both projects are 20 years in the making, and both were supposed to start work in 2019. Both hit new milestones in June, and it's time to review their very different progress. Also included in this episode: Tales from the launch pad.

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37:28

When the Universe Attacks

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/06/19

In this episode we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Fermi Paradox by looking at a bunch of science capable of preventing and destroying civilizations. We also review our latest not-so-great attempts to land on the moon and launch a rocket that (if it worked) could carry us to Mars.

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30:14

Happy Space News! Aurorae, Planet 9, and weird things...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/05/22

This week, we take a closer look at the weirdly twisty search for a possible planet in our outer solar system. We'll also take in the happy science of aurorae here, at Jupiter, and over Neptune, as well as a bunch of weird discoveries that has some people screaming "It's Aliens!" (it's not aliens).

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34:01

A failing look at Earth, a first look at other...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/05/19

In this week’s closer look we are going to look at the earth-facing missions that are getting dragged down by our atmosphere and will be forcibly retired by physics in the next few years, again with no replacements in the works. These missions allow us to do long term monitoring of our planet, its atmosphere, and the variables that help us understand everything from weather to climate change. We also look at cool new exoplanet discoveries, the beautiful death of a star, and tales from the

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32:37

Federal Budget Cuts: An extinction-level event

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/04/25

This week we look at how the elimination of science programs, projects, datasets, and funding may be shaping into an extinction-level event for US Space-related sciences. Come cry with us.

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31:13

From the beginning of the universe to the beginning...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/04/10

Let's take a fast-paced journey through all that's new in space and astronomy, including dark energy news, the death of supersymmetry, a closer look at remoting sensing in Earth science, and tales from the launch pad.

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29:09

Space is hard: IM2 Failure, Starship 8 explosion,...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/04/09

Let's take a fast-paced journey through all that's new in space and astronomy, including new results from Perseverance Rover, Venusian Volcanism, Mars Sample Return (or not), Intuitive Machines' failure to land upright, Firefly Aerospace's amazing success with Blue Ghost, and tales from the launch pad.

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36:18

The Book of Mars, Star Formation, and More

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/03/13

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including DESI takes a census of central blackholes, star formation in clusters, and updates on Europa Clipper, along with a deep dive into Mars science, and tales from the launch pad.

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34:49

Temperatures That Kill

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/02/20

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including a potentially killer asteroid, a new look at the history of Earth's water, and a mini-quasi-moon, along with a deep dive into climate change, and tales from the launch pad.

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33:36

Space stories of joy

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2025/01/24

It's the kind of week where we feel the need to put joy into the world, and we've made the decision to just find stories to bring a smile and share them with you. And also rockets, we're bringing you all the rocket news.

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29:59

Science Here & Far: The Moon, Asteroids, Dark...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2024/12/26

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru new discoveries planetary science and Cosmology. We look at Dark Comets, Io's gooey mantle, the colonization of a Ryugu sample by Earth bacteria, galaxies growing too fast too early, and more. As always, we'll also bring you tales from the launch pad.

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27:04

Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2024/12/12

From baby planets to ancient black holes, let's look at the week's space news, including the discovery of a planet around a still-forming star, our Sun's massive outbursts as measured by tree rings, a new catalog of white dwarfs in binary systems, and a deep dive into the possibility that black holes create dark energy. As always, we'll also bring you tales from the launch pad.

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26:09

By fire and ice: mass extinctions gone wild

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2024/11/28

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru new discoveries in past planetary destruction. From fire to ice, let's look at snowball Earth, melting permafrost, volcanoes short and long, and more. As always, we'll also bring you tales from the launch pad.

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27:19

Aerospace vs Climate Change

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2024/11/13

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including the first results from Euclid, Roman and Rubin get ready to search for Dark Energy, a deep dive into the effects of rockets and satellites on our atmosphere, and tales from the launch pad.

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33:05

Hera and Clipper plan on getting up close with other...

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2024/10/25

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including microscopic black holes trying to be dark matter, massive black holes firing off jets, a deep dive into Hera and Clippers journey to look at other worlds, and tales from the launch pad.

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29:42

SpaceX vs FAA and EPA and Cards Against Humanity

EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News ·

2024/10/03

This week we’re doing something we’ve never done before; we’re dedicating the majority of the show to a single story: SpaceX’s recurring failure to follow the rules, regulations, and norms of international spaceflight. We have the receipts, and we hope that you will hear us out before you hit that comment button.

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