Astrophysics for All

Can a Star’s Spin Tell Us Where to Find Earth 2.0? | Prof. Marcel Agüeros

How do you tell the age of a star that barely seems to age? And could the answer help us find another Earth? In this episode, I sit down with Professor Marcel Agüeros, a

How Did the First Galaxies Transform the Universe? | Dr Anshuman Acharya

What did the universe look like before the first galaxies - and how can we reconstruct an era we can barely observe? I speak with Dr Anshuman Acharya, a postdoctoral fel

The Best Discoveries Are the Ones You Never Expect | Dr. Kishalay De

Have you ever wondered how astronomers discover something they've never seen before? In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I'm joined by Dr. Kishalay De, Assistant Pr

How Does Light Reveal Our Origins?- Professor Robert A. Simcoe

Professor Robert Simcoe is the Director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and one of the world's leading astrophysicists on spectroscopy and

Finding the Missing Matter Between Galaxies - Isabel Medlock

How do you study something you can't see? In this episode, Yale astronomy PhD candidate Isabel Medlock explains how astronomers use powerful computer simulations and mys

Reading the Fossil Record of the Milky Way - Dr Jesse van de Sande

Are galaxies truly eternal, or do they have lifecycles just like living things? In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I speak with Dr Jesse van de Sande, astrophysici

Why Finding Life Is Harder Than We Thought - Professor Sara Seager

Professor Sara Seager is one of the world's leading exoplanet scientists and a professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He

The Smallest Galaxies Hold the Biggest Clues - Professor Marla Geha

In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I’m joined by Professor Marla Geha, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and an award-winning educator whose res

Awe, Exoplanets, and the Future of Astronomy - Dr. Emma Cain Louden

Astronomy has long captivated human curiosity, but how can it reshape our lives and communities? Dr. Emma Cain Louden is a passionate astrophysicist with a PhD from Yale

The Biggest Thing We Can’t See: Dark Matter - Professor Céline Bœhm

In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I’m joined by Professor Céline Bœhm, an astroparticle physicist and Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Sydney, wh

Where Should We Look for Life in the Universe? - Dr Ben Montet

Dr Ben Montet is a Scientia Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney. He completed his PhD in astrophysics at Caltech and was a Carl Sagan Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Globular Clusters and the Hidden History of Galaxies - Dr Caroline Foster

In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I speak with Dr Caroline Foster, an observational astronomer at UNSW Sydney who studies how galaxies form, grow, and evolve over

Dark Matter and the Hidden 95% of the Universe - Professor Geraint Lewis

What if everything we can see in the universe—stars, planets, galaxies, and even ourselves—makes up less than 5% of reality? In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I s

The Mysteries of Galaxy Evolution - Professor Sarah Brough

In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I'm joined by Professor Sarah Brough, Head of the School of Physics at University of New South Wales and an observational astrono

Antarctica and the Edge of Astronomy - Professor Michael Ashley

How is Antarctica's unique environment revolutionising the way astronomers observe the universe? In this episode, Professor Michael Ashley shares the advantages, challeng

The Physics of a Warming World - Professor Steven Sherwood

Clouds might look soft and harmless, but they play one of the biggest roles in deciding Earth’s future climate. In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I'm speaking wi

The Dark Energy Quest - Dr Rossana Ruggeri

In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I’m joined by Dr. Rosanna Ruggeri, a cosmologist and honorary research fellow at the University of Queensland. We explore how sci

The Stars We Didn’t Know Existed - Dr Laura Driessen

In this episode of Astrophysics for All, I’m joined by Dr Laura Driessen, a radio astronomer and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney’s Sydney Institute fo

Are We Alone? Discovering New Worlds - Dr Jerome de Leon

"We only know life as we know it." In this episode, we chat with Dr. Jerome de Leon, an astrophysicist who has helped discover dozens of exoplanets using telescopes lik

Galaxy Clusters as Windows into the Cosmos - Dr Taweewat (Champ) Somboonpanyakul

Curious about how to really learn astronomy? In this episode, Taweewat (Champ) Somboonpanyakul, an astrophysicist with roots at Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Techn