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Quanta Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

All Episodes about planetary science

New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

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A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life

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A mosaic of five microscope images of igneous rocks. The rocks are dappled with blue, pink, orange and multicolor inclusions.

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life

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Blue faults of Cerberus Fossae

Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows

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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation

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Photo of a diver between two tectonic plates in Silfra. reykjavik. Iceland

Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life

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A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start

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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

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Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life

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