Can’t tell the difference between asteroids, comets, meteoroids, meteors and meteorites? Never fear… Neil deGrasse Tyson explains them all in this episode of Cosmic Queries.
Back on February 15th, we put up a blog post called “Asteroids, Meteors, Meteorites…What’s the Difference?” in response to the sometimes confusing media coverage a few days earlier of the twin events of a meteor exploding over Russia on the same day that asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past Earth. A few of you read that… View Article
Did you get a haircut? Grow a beard? I know what it is: you got new glasses. No, that’s not it. There’s something different about you, though. I know there is. The fact is, our audience has grown so much in the last few months, we don’t know who most of you are. Some of… View Article
Take off for an asteroid with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Peter Diamandis, the co-founder of Planetary Resources and the man with the plan to mine asteroids for profit and progress.
I never got to listen to Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller describing their visions for the future of America. They were way before my time. But it’s hard not to get excited listening to Peter Diamandis explain exactly how Planetary Resources is going to find and mine near-earth approaching asteroids. His vision for a… View Article
This Sunday, we’re revisiting a classic episode of StarTalk Radio, Revolving Around the Sun. And if you’ve never heard it before, you’re in for an illuminating episode about our favorite ball of plasma, Sol. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are joined in their solar sojourn by Steve Keil, director of the… View Article
The following blog post is written by StarTalk Radio’s Social Media Coordinator, Stacey David Severn. I was recently lucky enough to attend The Explorers Club Annual Dinner weekend in New York City, which proved to be one surprise after another. Through the club’s “Exploring Legends” interview series, we were treated to an intimate first-hand… View Article
Part 2 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with chef Anthony Bourdain is all about cooking and eating, from molecular cooking to food safety to the new “Nose to Tail” movement.
We all eat. Some of us even cook. And some of us think we know more about cooking than we really do because we watch way too much Food Channel. But listening to Anthony Bourdain talk to Neil about food, I got the same sense I get when listening to Neil talk to anyone about… View Article
Great news! Season 1 of StarTalk Radio hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson is now available for digital downloading. We’ve taken it out of the vault, and, even better, it’s advertiser free. No more ads interrupting your science, comedy and popular culture. To help keep new StarTalk episodes coming, we’re adopting the same model as many… View Article
