PBS Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth. Host Matt O'Dowd breaks down both the basic and incredibly complex sides of space and time.
Episodes
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Episode 36, Season 9
Did JWST Solve The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole OriginWe may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.14:33 -
Episode 35, Season 9
Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?Does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?16:30 -
Episode 34, Season 9
Can The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?Could cosmic voids be driving the universe?14:29 -
Episode 33, Season 9
What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?Is there a black hole hiding in the core of the Sun eating it from the inside out?17:53 -
Episode 32, Season 9
What if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?What if we aren't the first technological civilization on Earth?19:19 -
Episode 31, Season 9
Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.19:03 -
Episode 30, Season 9
What If Gravity is Not Quantum?The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?18:32 -
Episode 29, Season 9
How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?Alien life will most likely be discovered by faint changes in the color of alien sunsets.18:32 -
Episode 28, Season 9
Why Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?The 2023 Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to three physicists for attosecond physics.12:05 -
Episode 27, Season 9
JWST Discovered The Farthest Star Ever Seen!With the James Webb Space Telescope we’ve now seen the earliest star ever detected.15:59 -
Episode 26, Season 9
Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?Some are arguing that Many Worlds and Pilot Wave are really the same.17:24 -
Episode 25, Season 9
Are Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?What if we could produce superconductivity at room temperature? It would change the world.18:00 -
Episode 24, Season 9
What New Science Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?We may need to build a radio telescope in the quietest place nearby - the moon!20:39 -
Episode 23, Season 9
What If Space is Not Empty?Spacetime on its smallest scale is an ocean of black holes and wormholes...or so we think.14:59 -
Episode 22, Season 9
Did JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars?Did JWST just find a new type of star powered by dark matter?11:49 -
Episode 21, Season 9
Do We Need a New Dark Matter Model?Did we just uncover new evidence to support Cold Dark Matter?16:21 -
Episode 13, Season 9
Could LIGO Find Massive Alien Spaceships?Could LIGO find alien spacecraft accelerating to near light speed?16:42 -
Episode 20, Season 9
Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?The gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.15:51 -
Episode 19, Season 9
What If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?Let’s explore how constant this speed of light fundamental constant really is.15:05 -
Episode 18, Season 9
Does Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?Dark matter may be a quantum mechanical wave that literally holds galaxies together.14:39 -
Episode 17, Season 9
Did AI Prove Our Proton Model Wrong?Has AI proven that the proton is made of 5 quarks rather than 3 quarks?16:24 -
Episode 16, Season 9
What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?How close is too close for supernova explosions?15:16 -
Episode 15, Season 9
Could We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?Could we turn our solar system into a spaceship and drive the Sun around the galaxy?12:14 -
Episode 14, Season 9
Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?If we want to see quantum weirdness with our eyes, we’ll need Bose-Einstein Condensates.16:00 -
Episode 12, Season 9
Fermions Vs. Bosons Explained with Statistical Mechanics!How can we tell the difference between fermions & bosons? Statistical Mechanics!15:51 -
Episode 11, Season 9
New Discovery About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!Why has a newly discovered a black hole started pointing directly at us?13:25 -
Episode 10, Season 9
How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Spread?There’s a hard limit to humanity’s expansion in the universe. So, how big can we get?15:57 -
Episode 9, Season 9
How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?Let’s figure out the absolute limit of our future view of the universe!16:49 -
Episode 8, Season 9
What If Black Holes Are Dark Energy?Let see if Black Holes and Dark Energy are the same thing!16:34 -
Episode 7, Season 9
What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains.16:28 -
Episode 6, Season 9
Are Space and Time Real?Does the next level of physics require us to do away with space and time?18:58 -
Episode 5, Season 9
How Does The Nucleus Hold Together?Nuclei are held together by a quirk of nature, without which there’d be nothing.14:28 -
Episode 4, Season 9
How Does the Earth Really Move Through The Galaxy?Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out!16:29 -
Episode 3, Season 9
What If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?Could there silicon-based life beyond Earth?14:47 -
Episode 2, Season 9
What If The Universe Is Math?If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.17:33 -
Episode 1, Season 9
The New Science of Moon FormationLearn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did.15:32
