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Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Seeing Through the Smoke
The near-term haze of climate disasters obscures our possible futures. But long-term trends leave room for optimism.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Long Time Coming
Planetary exploration can take up a large portion of one’s life.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Venus Lives!
Don’t disbelieve the hype: New evidence for active volcanic vents on our sister planet is convincing.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
ET on Earth?
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence should not exclude our own planet.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Nudging a Space Rock
That’s one small change in an asteroid’s orbit, one giant leap for humanity.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Worlds Apart
Can a newly found exoplanet help explain why Earth and Venus diverged so radically?
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Sending Astronauts to Venus
Crazy as it might seem, it’s a logical and thrilling prospect.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Crash as Trash
When should we start thinking about cleaning up our space junk on Mars?
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Searching for Intelligence on Earth
Space exploration can serve as an antidote to war. And vice versa.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Grave Expectations
We can try to devise rules for how detecting alien life should unfold, but E.T. might not play along.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Interstellar Stowaways
Could microorganisms travel between the stars?
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Many Happy Returns
Venus’s eight-year cycle has the author dreaming of 2029.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Life Beyond Earth?
By century’s end, the author thinks we’ll have an answer to this question. But what kind of answer?
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
The Prime of Their Lives
The strange cycles of cicadas offer timely insight into the search for ET.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Eavesdropping on Mars
The most compelling audio the Perseverance rover will record might well be the sounds it generates itself.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
The Cosmic Conjunction
When the world’s got you down, look up and tune into orbital time.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Adiós, Arecibo
On the painful loss of an iconic Space Age observatory.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Venus Surprise
Will phosphine be the “Mars rock” of our sister planet?
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
My Virtual Comet Sighting
There’s nothing like being there, but these days we can all find a pretty good view.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Not From Around Here
NASA’s rovers have found meteorites on Mars that came from elsewhere. What secrets do they hold about Martian history and climate?
