17:36
How NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Look For Life
When it lands on Mars in winter of 2021, the Perseverance rover will search an ancient river delta for signs of life.
17:10
Who Owns The Night Sky?
As space fills with satellites, how do we weigh the value of a dark night over the benefits of a connected world?
In A Moment Of Black Holes And Pandemics
A year after the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first ever image of a black hole, author and astrophysicist Janna Levin looks back at the project’s impact.
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A NASA Rover Is Catching A Private Ride To The Moon
The rover is designed to explore for the large stores of ice scientists suspect may be frozen in lunar polar regions.
17:01
A Private Route To Orbit
SpaceX is attempting to send the first privately launched crewed flight to the space station this weekend.
16:42
Galileo’s Battle Against Science Denial
How Galileo’s fight for science against skeptics is more relevant than ever.
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Making A New Map Of The Moon
USGS scientists used their expertise in map-making to catalogue the geology of the moon.
Sip, Sketch, And Gaze At The Sun (Safely)
On May 12, join Science Friday and Adler Planetarium to look through a telescope at the Sun together, through the power of the Internet. Get inspired by what you see and make an artwork as we look up!
17:15
Thirty Years Of Stardom
After 30 years, the Hubble Space Telescope still offers sharp insight into space.
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Scientists Discover Potential Signs Of Life On Mercury
Mercury, it turns out, may have both water and basic chemical building blocks of life.