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PBS Space Time

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Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth with our astrophysicist host: Matthew O’Dowd. For all business inquiries and sponsorship opportunities please reach out to: pbsspacetime@lighthouseagents.com Matt O'Dowd spends his time studying the universe, especially really far-away things like quasars, super-massive black holes, and evolving galaxies. He uses telescopes in space to do it. Matt completed his Ph.D. at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute, followed by work at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University. He's now a professor at the City University of New York's Lehman College and an Associate at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium. Previous host Gabe Perez-Giz is an astrophysicist who studies black hole physics. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and also hosted PBS Infinite Series. patreon.com/pbsspacetime

Latest episodes

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How To Identify Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

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Oct 5
24 min

Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?

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Oct 5
26 min

The Doomsday Argument

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Oct 5
23 min

Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

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Oct 5
21 min

The Equation That Illuminates (Nearly) Everything!

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Oct 5
21 min

Is There Life on Mars?

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Oct 5
18 min

The NEW Ultimate Energy Cap of the Universe

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Oct 5
23 min

How To Become an Astrophysicist + Challenge Question!

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Oct 5
16 min

How To Capture Black Holes

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Oct 5
19 min

What are the Strings in String Theory?

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Oct 5
21 min

Will You Travel to Space?

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Oct 5
21 min

Dissolving an Event Horizon

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Oct 5
21 min

Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

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Oct 5
24 min

No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?

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Oct 5
19 min

How To Detect a Neutrino

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Oct 5
13 min

The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It

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Oct 5
19 min

The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

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Oct 5
21 min

How Many Forms Of Matter Exist?

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Oct 5
18 min

What If The Speed of Light Were NOT CONSTANT?

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Oct 5
27 min

Can Space Time Keep Memory?

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Oct 5
19 min

Chart trend

Position in the Astronomy chart (US), last 90 days.

#6
all-time peak
58
days in the top 10 since Mar 2026

Chart positions

Where PBS Space Time ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Oct 5, 2026).

#10 ▼ 2 Astronomy US
#194 ▼ 27 Science US

What listeners say

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I absolutely love this show and it’s perfect for a podcast but the frequent, loud, sudden ads make it almost unusable for now

Icosahedron812 · Aug 2026

I’m grateful for podcasts that share material like that shared through this channel, but the frequent commercial breaks that interrupt dense content mid sentence ruin this show for me. It’s as if PBS has no editorial influence on where these breaks occur or how long they are, and whomever the choice is left up to is intentionally attempting to ruin the episodes. Please improve this. It wouldn’t be too hard. Sentences end. Content areas have subdivisions. Put the commercials in places that don’t chop a sentence in half at every too frequent break. I haven’t heard another podcast so thoughtlessly chopped up for advertising. The one star is for the editing. The content gets five stars.

trn2climb · Jul 2026

I love PBS Space Time, but the ads make this podcast borderline unlistenable for me. I have jumped out of my seat from how loud and sudden they are.

magicweakness2 · Jul 2026

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