Do you remember that time when you turned on CNN a few years ago to watch the space shuttle launch and instead of the familiar face of Miles O’Brien there was some other reporter covering the launch? Do you remember how disappointed you were? Well, I do. I don’t remember the specific flight, or who… View Article
Part of the fun of going to StarTalk Live! is that you never know who’s going to show up on stage… even when you think you know. This past Sunday, lucky StarTalk fans got treated to an extra surprise, when Dr. David Grinspoon, aka Dr. FunkySpoon, showed up as a surprise science guest at the… View Article
Curious about comets? Anxious about near-Earth asteroids? Join us as guest host Dr. Amy Mainzer from NASA/JPL answers your Cosmic Queries with a little help from comic co-host Chuck Nice.
This week, StarTalk Radio welcomes Dr. Amy Mainzer to the ranks of “Science All-Stars” who are courageously filling in for host Neil deGrasse Tyson on those occasions when he’s been off working on the new COSMOS series on FOX. As an astrophysicist who works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Amy is the ideal guide to… View Article
Today’s guest blog post is by StarTalk Radio Social Media Assistant Sarah Cotten, who manages our Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest channels and, as you’re about to find out, is a bit of a geek: About three weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending PAX East, up in Boston, MA. I’ve gone every year, since… View Article
There have been so many new discoveries in science in the last few years – and you’ve asked questions about all of them. So this episode your own personal astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and his trusty comic co-host Eugene Mirman tackle as many as they can. You’ll learn about bruises in the cosmic background radiation… View Article
Cosmic bruises… Quantum entanglement… Gravitational lensing… Ion drives… Asteroid mining… Evaporating black holes… Expanding universes and colliding galaxies… The search for atmospheric biomarkers on exoplanets… No, this isn’t science fiction… it’s the frontier of science in 2014. And tomorrow night, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Eugene Mirman tick off a few of… View Article
“Earthrise” – the iconic photograph of Earth taken from lunar orbit on Dec. 24, 1968 by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders – is often considered to be one of the most important – and reproduced – photographs ever taken. It was the first time we ever actually saw Earth floating in the vastness of… View Article
Worlds collide when Neil deGrasse Tyson puts on his StarTalk Radio hosting hat to interview astrophysicist Dr. Steven Soter, co-writer of the new COSMOS series on FOX hosted by Neil.
Have you been watching the new COSMOS series on FOX and wondered why the show seems to focus so much on the history of science? Or maybe you want to know why the new Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey utilizes so much more animation than the original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage did? You’re in luck, because… View Article
Today’s guest post is written by StarTalk Radio’s Social Media Coordinator, Stacey Severn. Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz was awarded the Buzz Aldrin Quadrennial Space Award at The Explorers Club Annual Dinner March 15 in New York, along with planetary researcher Maria Zuber. Before the dinner, the two were interviewed by Club Fellow and Director Jim… View Article
