Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: The 11 Dimensions of Brian Greene
In this episode of Orbital Path, we hear from Brian Greene on the coming paradigm shift in physics as current theories fail to adequately explain quantum entanglement.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Journey to the Sun
Nicki Viall, a heliophysicist at Goddard Space Flight Center, shares her excitement over the Parker Solar Probe — the spacecraft that will allow scientists to "touch" the Sun.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: First Light
John Mather has seen many first lights, not the least being the first light of the universe — and soon he will see the first light of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Holy Sheet!
Join host Michelle Thaller as she learns about the IceBridge mission and the scientific discoveries it is making in the latest installment of Orbital Path Podcast
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Making Gravitational Waves
The universe sings to us in gravitational waves, and we're starting to listen. Michelle Thaller discusses the discovery of gravitational waves and their unusual effects in her latest astronomy podcast.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Lessons in Landslides
Earth is a planet, too! Dr. Michelle Thaller explores how NASA investigates Earth using space-based satellites, and how that knowledge can save lives.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Space Robots to Europa!
Dr. Michelle Thaller talks to two NASA astrobiologists on when and how we'll explore Europa's subsurface ocean, and what we might find there.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Averting Disaster in the Ozone Layer
Dr. Michelle Thaller explores the story of how scientists discovered that the ozone layer was disappearing and how they moved to save it — and avert catastrophe.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: Warning! Space May Wreak Havoc on Your Body
Would you go into space if you knew your bones would turn into “pee brittle”? Dr. Michelle Thaller explores the effects of space on the human body.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path Podcast: In Search of Planet 9
Astronomers are debating the existence of a big planet beyond the orbits of Pluto and Neptune. Dr. Michelle Thaller talks with planetary scientists Scott Shepard and Mike Brown about when we'll discover it.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path 10: Done in the Sun
Michelle Thaller speaks with NASA's Alex Young about the space agency's impressive fleet of Sun-monitoring spacecraft — including the upcoming Solar Probe Plus.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path 8: A Tale of Two Asteroids - Vesta and Ceres
Host Michelle Thaller speaks with Lucy McFadden, co-investigator of NASA’s Dawn Mission that traveled 130 million miles to orbit the asteroids Vesta and Ceres.
Orbital Path Podcasts with Michelle Thaller
Orbital Path 1: Must Be Aliens
Host Michelle Thaller talks with Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait about a conundrum: why are humans so quick to explain the unknowns of the cosmos as aliens? And why is this healthy imagination important in science?
