Space news with science still attached.
EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News connects astronomy headlines with the slower science beneath them. It moves from Artemis uncertainty and rocket delays to comets, supervolcanoes, glaciers, space junk, Mars, and strange stellar deaths.
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EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News works where astronomy news, aerospace politics, and planetary science keep colliding. The show is comfortable with beautiful objects, but it rarely stops at wonder. Recent excerpts move from comet C 2025 A6 Lemon, 3i Atlas, and C 2025 R3 Pan-STARRS into the mechanics of comet origins, Kuiper belt sources, the Oort cloud, and gravitational disruption. Then the frame widens. Supervolcanoes, fossils, plate tectonics, climate, glaciers, earthquake stress shadows, and tsunamis sit beside questions about whether life could have existed elsewhere in the solar system. That Earthbound attention matters. EVSN treats this planet as part of space science, not a distraction from it. The aerospace coverage is more unsettled. Artemis plans, NASA reports, Starliner, SLS, SpaceX Starship HLS, rocket delays, launch attempts, hardware testing margins, supply chains, and budget pressure all appear as live complications rather than tidy milestones. The tone can be sharp. It is also careful about uncertainty, repeatedly showing how science changes when new observations, archival data, or better instruments complicate an earlier read. Dr. Pamela Gay's presence gives the show its center: technical, direct, occasionally exasperated, and willing to admit when news is moving faster than production. The show also makes room for strange sky events, from a black-hole-and-star supernova scenario to possible ancient-life clues from Perseverance. It suits a listener who wants astronomy with working parts visible: papers, observations, caveats, institutional constraints, and the occasional human aside. The differentiating pleasure is the mix of immediacy and depth. EVSN can react to unstable headlines without pretending the universe itself is simple.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants astronomy and aerospace news with enough technical context to understand why each claim matters. It also fits people who like Earth science, climate, geology, and policy kept in the same frame as rockets and comets.
What sets it apart: EVSN stands apart by treating space coverage as both science reporting and systems reporting: instruments, budgets, launch hardware, climate, geology, and uncertainty all matter. Its scientist-led voice is detailed without becoming sterile, and blunt without losing care.
Get your weekly dose of all that's new in space and astronomy with Escape Velocity Space News. The sky is not the limit, as we bring you the latest scientific discoveries and rocket launches. EVSN is brought to you by the team behind CosmoQuest at the Planetary Science Institute and features hosts Dr. Pamela L. Gay and Erik Madaus, with audio engineering by Ally Pelphrey. EVSN is supported through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CosmoQuestX.
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Cosmic pairs lead into a grounded look at how NASA gets moon hardware ready.
NASA's moon plans arrive framed by pairs: planets forming in a disk, stars joining to burn brighter, asteroids sharing a faster path around the sun, and planets shaped by collision.
A brisk aerospace roundup becomes a grounded read on Artemis hardware and schedule strain.
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Patient space coverage with real mission context.
This episode explores the interplay of plate tectonics, geology, climate, and life through the lens of supervolcanoes and their cycles.
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Escape Velocity Space News examines space junk alongside solar activity, unusual weather, and three messy stellar systems.
Escape Velocity Space News examines Perseverance’s Shavaya Falls rock, whose leopard-like mineral spots and organic molecules are consistent with ancient microbial activity but do not prove life.
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This episode of Escape Velocity Space News focuses on SpaceX's repeated failures to follow international spaceflight rules and regulations, with hosts Dr.
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