Star Trails: A Weekly Astronomy Podcast

This week we take a nerdy detour into the lives of stars by building a tiny simulated gala... more

Stars are easy to take for granted. They rise, they set, and they seem unchanged from one ... more

This week, we begin a month-long exploration of the most familiar objects in the night sky... more

What if the problem isn’t the sky, but our expectations? In this episode we step back from... more

In this episode, we continue our January series for new stargazers by exploring one of the... more

This week we slow down and spend the night with one of the sky’s most iconic constellation... more

The first episode of a new year is a good time to slow down, zoom out, and reset. In this ... more

As the year winds down, we make one last stop beneath the night sky for the week of Decemb... more

For the season finale of Star Trails, we’re building a “time machine” the only way we know... more

This week, we’re doing something chaotic: we’re mapping the entire history of the universe... more

This episode begins with auroras and interstellar objects and ends somewhere much closer t... more

This week on Star Trails, we let the universe decide. We fire up a real quantum computer t... more

This week on Star Trails, we explore the messages written across the cosmos — from faint c... more

As Halloween approaches, we drift into one of astronomy’s most haunting questions: if life... more

The veil between life and death is thin in late October, and not just on Earth. This week ... more

The nights are growing longer, the air is sharpening, and the Moon is finally stepping asi... more

The Harvest Supermoon rises over crisp autumn nights as Saturn reigns in the southeast and... more

It’s been a short break due to technical issues, travel, and life in general, but the show... more

This week we explore both the night sky and the cosmic tick-tock of time itself. The Moon ... more