SciFri Radio: Astronomy

SciFri Radio: IBEX Spacecraft Intercepts ‘Alien’ Particles
IBEX studies the composition of the Milky Way by measuring the abundance of interstellar particles.

SciFri Radio: Lawrence Krauss On ‘A Universe From Nothing’
In his book, Krauss surveys modern cosmology and what it says about the past and future universe.

SciFri Radio: Winter Wonderland? Wonder No Longer
A panel of experts discusses the different scientific phenomena that combine to make up the winter season.

SciFri Radio: NASA Probes Set To Orbit The Moon Over New Year’s
As NASA’s twin probes near the moon, the mission’s chief scientist talks about its objective.

SciFri Radio: Year in Review: Science Stories of 2011
Four journalists join Ira Flatow to discuss the top science stories of 2011.

SciFri Radio: Kepler Telescope Narrows Hunt For Earth’s Twin
NASA’s Kepler has discovered the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another in the “Goldilocks zone.”

SciFri Radio: Pondering the Possibility of Non-constant ‘Constants’
New research indicates that a value thought to be a basic foundation of physics might vary from place to place in the universe.

SciFri Radio: Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth
This weekend, another satellite is scheduled to crash to Earth, just a month after the last one.

SciFri Radio: Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers?
Astronomers have a new theory on how blue straggler stars are formed.

SciFri Radio: Physics Nobelists Observed An Accelerating Universe
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three American astronomers.

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SciFri Newsbriefs: Astronomy

Newsbrief: Watering Pole
Mars has enough frozen water to cover the planet in 36 feet of water.

Newsbrief: Liquid Mirror Lunar Telescope
Using liquid for the telescope's mirror could let scientists see deeper into the Universe than ever before.

Newsbrief: Designing for the Stars
What will the next generation of space suits look like?

Newsbrief: New Moon
The moon may not be as old as previously thought.

Newsbrief: So long, Ulysses!
The sun-studying spacecraft is about to end its epic odyssey.