NASA's Curious Universe
An official NASA podcast bringing you mind-blowing stories you won’t find anywhere else.
What does it take to launch a rocket? What happens when we go looking for life beyond Earth? And what can the universe teach us next?
With extraordinary access to the people and places behind NASA’s exploration of space, Curious Universe brings you closer to the discoveries shaping what we know about our universe.
Don’t forget your curiosity.
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Webb's Exoplanet Research Sounds Like Sci-Fi—Bu...
Faraway worlds come into focus thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Why Webb's Earliest Galaxies Are Blowing Scient...
The James Webb Space Telescope is looking further back in time than we've ever seen before.
27 min
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How Lying In Bed For 60 Days Helps Astronauts
NASA's studying humans here on Earth to help astronauts stay healthy in space.
27 min
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Earth Series: What's Next for NASA Earth Science
What will we learn about this unique, life-giving planet next?
28 min
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Earth Series: Monitoring the Air We Breathe
How NASA helped save the ozone layer—and tracks air pollution around the world.
38 min
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Earth Series: From Space to Your Plate
NASA satellites track changes on our planet's surface and help farmers feed the world.
31 min
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Earth Series: The Ocean, Now in Full Color
The two new NASA satellites keeping an eye on the ocean.
34 min
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Earth Series: How NASA Sees Our Blue Marble
Earth, from space: a revelatory point of view.
28 min
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Welcome to Earth
There's one planet NASA studies more than any other: our own.
3 min
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Curious Universe Live: Art and Science with Ast...
Live from On Air Fest in Brooklyn, New York: NASA astronaut Matt Dominick.
29 min
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Inside the Team That Keeps Hubble Flying
For the space telescope's 35th anniversary, a rare peek inside its control center.
38 min
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How NASA Found the Ingredients For Life on an A...
Some of the first science results are in from a NASA mission to asteroid Bennu.
27 min
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Why the Moon’s Icy South Pole is a Hot Target f...
NASA's Artemis campaign is targeting the South Pole for the first crewed lunar landing in decades.
36 min
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The Mind-Bending Math Inside Black Holes
Dr. Ronald Gamble, a NASA theoretical astrophysicist, peers inside some of the universe's most extreme objects: black holes.
25 min
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How Open Science and AI Are Advancing Hurricane...
A NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft flies into the eye of a storm. What happens next?
31 min
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Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon
Could Jupiter's moon support life in its salty seas?
36 min
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An Asteroid by Any Other Name With Special Gues...
At NASA, defending the planet from space rocks is serious business.
38 min
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Sun Series: Bonus: Dispatches from the Path of ...
As the Moon's shadow fell across the U.S., NASA sent us into the field.
35 min
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Sun Series: Soaring Toward the Sun
For the first time, a NASA spacecraft is flying through the Sun's atmosphere.
35 min
45
Sun Series: What is Space Weather?
Close up, our star is a wild, stormy place.
34 min
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Sun Series: Minisode! Countdown to Total Solar ...
It's almost time for a once-in-a-lifetime show.
11 min
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Sun Series: You (Yes, You!) Can Help NASA Study...
You can help NASA solve our star's enduring mysteries.
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Sun Series: How to Experience a Total Solar Ecl...
When the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, the world looks up in awe.
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Sun Series: The Sun, Our Star
A journey from the surface of the Earth into our Sun's core.
36 min
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Here Comes the Sun Series
This year, get to know your friendly neighborhood star.
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