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Podcast for audio and video - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Video and audio podcasts from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory feature the latest news on space and

Episodes

Total: 100

Where did life originate on Earth? Could the process hold clues for finding life elsewhere?

What's Up - April 2020

2020/3/31

What are some astronomy highlights in the sky in April 2020? This month, Venus visits the Pleiades;

NASA Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada guides this tour of the rover's view of the Martian

What's Up - March 2020

2020/3/2

Looking for astronomy highlights for March 2020? This month, early risers enjoy a planetary grouping

Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth is a historic undertaking that starts w

What are the skywatching highlights of February 2020?

After 16 years of unveiling the infrared universe, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has left a singula

A new NASA-funded planet-hunting instrument has been installed on the WIYN telescope, on Arizona’s K

What's Up - January 2020

2019/12/31

What are the skywatching highlights of January 2020?

On Dec. 17, 2019, engineers took NASA’s next Mars rover for its first spin.

Finding black rocks in the darkness of space isn’t easy, but new methods could help spot them all.

What's Up - December 2019

2019/11/26

What can you see in the December sky? Beautiful pairings of Venus, Saturn and Mars with the crescent

Every year, intrepid Antarctica explorers hunt for space rocks that have fallen to Earth.

What's in a name? Whether you call it a planet or an asteroid, missions that explore small worlds ar

Could Mars ever have supported life?

See how the odd orbits Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other, as

Asteroids, ho! Pioneering space miners dream of Psyche, the largest metal asteroid in the solar syst

Why are missions like OSIRIS-REx bringing pieces of an asteroid back home?

What's Up - November 2019

2019/11/1

Highlights of the November sky include how to watch as Mercury transits the Sun.

Unlike the dinosaurs, we have a space program. There are many ways we could steer an asteroid off it