EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

On Background: The Anatomy of a Comet

In this special episode, funded by the National Science Foundation, we're taking a break from the headlines to study the changing anatomy of a comet.

After Hours: Making Moons and Getting Cratered with William K Hartmann

Across a long career, Dr William Hartmann has done everything from innovating how the Moon was formed to founding the Planetary Science Institute to defining space art fo

After Hours: Doing Big Science with Light Tools with guest Dr Danny Jacobs

Science comes from many corners, and there is a need for both 600-m radio telescopes made on a great plain (Like the RATAN-600) and 60cm radio dishes built in a living ro

After Hours: International Moon Day 2026 with guest Jekan Thanga

On July 20, the world celebrates International Moon Day. This UN designated holiday marks the anniversary of humanity's first landing on the Moon. The Apollo 11 landing i

After Hours: Space Rocks Collected for Science with guest Dr Rhonda Stroud

Our solar system readily provides us with free samples of other worlds in the form of meteorites. The trick comes in first recognizing them, and then in understanding wha

After Hours: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions with author Trisha Muro

The physics behind modern spaceflight explores everything from aerodynamics to thermodynamics with a lot of kinematics playing a role along the way. We welcome on guest T

Astronomy Asks: How did you get there?

How is this the last episode of the season? July snuck up on us. We'll be back Sept 2 with Season 5! For now, we've got astronomers asking questions; questions like "Did

Tracing the hidden and revealing the past

In this episode we look at the hidden and unexpected geology that may lurk beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet, evidence of past worlds and lost moons that may once have

After Hours: Our shape shifting Universe with author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Join Pamela for an hour that looks at science and society as she talks with author and cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. In her new book, "The Edge of Space-Time: Par

Tails SpaceX Fails, Heads We Lose the Earth

In this episode, we look at the SpaceX SEC initial filing and put its facts and figures in context and ask, can they do it? And can the Earth survive if they succeed?

Chasing Chemistry: Missions measure comet & planet atmospheres

In this episode, we're going to look at Psyche's success at Mars, the cool 3I-ATLAS science coming from Europa Clipper and JUICE en route to the Jupiter system:, and we a

After Hours: Crowdsourcing Innovation with Trisha Epp

Trisha Epp joins us to talking about NASA's collaboration with Freelancer, and how Innovation is now getting crowdsourced. Join in to learn how to launch your own Moonsho

Astronomers: Improbability Finders

Pamela is on the road in this episode as we look at how (and why) astronomers keep finding the improbable, follow the evidence to possible sources of little red dots, stu

Uncommon Stars

In today's episode, we look at the Voyager mission's exploration beyond our solar system, the organics Mars Curiosity Rover has discovered, the distribution of planets un

The One With the Dark Matter

In this episode, we're going to be looking back in time at how Dark Matter may have influenced the formation of Supermassive Blackholes, newly catalogued remnants of left

After Hours: Launching the small(er) things with Exolaunch CEO Robert Sproles

As commercial space becomes a more and more mature industry, we're seeing new needs emerge. Front and the center is the need for someone - or some company - to make it ea

To Artemis, With Love

This is EVSN's love letter to the Artemis II mission.

Supervolcanoes: Erupt, Refill, Repeat

This week, in the first of our new shorter and more frequent episodes, we are going to take a look at the interplay of plate tectonics, geology, climate, and life. Specif

Science in Pairs & Moon Plans Redux

Once again, we're going to attempt to get you up to date with what is going down at NASA. In addition to NASA updates, we have stories of science that comes in twos. From

On Background - Comets, the basics

In this special episode, funded by the National Science Foundation, we're taking a break from the headlines to share the background story of comets. Today, we'll focus on