This month Hannah, Hugh, and Andrew chat with Dr Sarah Casewell about her work on irradiated brown dwarfs. Sarah is an Earnest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Leicester where she has spent her career since undergrad. We chat all things brown dwarfs and what makes the irradiated ones so special to study. Sarah also shares her journey in academia from PhD, to postdoc, manager, and now fellow, all while becoming a mum (twice). We Read more
Apr 22, 2020•56 min
In the final of three mini-exocasts we will release this month, we cover some of the notable happenings in exoplanet science over the past month. On this episode we cover new planets from the TESS mission, a novel technique for detecting exoplanets using radio emission, and the end of the very productive KELT survey after 17 years. We also revisit K2-18b, which hit the exoplanet headlines last year after water vapour was definitively detected in Read more...
Mar 30, 2020•39 min
Exocast-43c - On this episode we ask the question: Can we EVER travel to an exoplanet?
Mar 23, 2020•38 min
Special guest interview with Natalia Guerrero
Mar 16, 2020•40 min
Our final bite-size episode for this month features Andrew, Hannah, and Hugh chatting with Dr Stephen Kane, Associate Professor of Planetary Astrophysics in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside. Stephen tells us a little about his need to use all exoplanet detection techniques, his love for our hot and cloudy next-door neighbour Venus, and he tries to sneak two planets into our adopted exoplanet list, before settling...
Feb 21, 2020•45 min
In the second of three mini-casts this month, Hannah, Hugh, and Andrew gather around the virtual table to discuss that weird and wonderful molecule: H2O! The importance of water to our lives is undeniable, but in this show we chat about what makes water so chemically unusual and important in the study of astrophysics, exoplanet astronomy, and astrobiology.
Feb 12, 2020•32 min
In the first of three mini-casts this month, we discuss all the recent exoplanet news from December 2019 & January 2020. That includes a temperate world around TOI-700d; Proxima Centauri c; three new planetary systems losing their atmospheres found with RVs; Circumbinary planets in Kepler and TESS; Iron in WASP-121b; Two different phase curves from TESS; and the atmosphere of Beta Pic b in glorious detail.
Feb 05, 2020•37 min
In Exocast-41b we talk to Dr Erin May about all things from observing to theoretical GCMs, Hugh discusses Strange transit signals, we review #ExoCup2019 and go through the months Exoplanet news.
Dec 14, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Hugh chats with his colleague at the University of Bern Dr. Brett Morris about starspots and their effect on exoplanet detection and characterisation, his experience with an astrobiology mission right here on Earth, and he recounts an exciting day in Bern earlier this year. Andrew discusses the labels we apply to the worlds we find, and the gang debates the usefulness of the terms for exoplanet science. And Hannah reads ADS so you don’t have Read more...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 18 min
On the 39th episode of exocast: Andrew chats with UC Irvine’s radial velocity expert (and occasional planet-killer) Dr Paul Robertson in the Exocast Studio. Hannah outlines how the 2019 ExoCup is going to play out, and Hugh performs the draw for the first round “live” on air. And Hugh reports from the Exocast news desk on arXiv’s wackiest exoplanet papers from the past month, plus we chat about Mayor & Queloz winning the 2019 Nobel Read more
Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Exocast-38b: Exoclimes V voxbox, NASA's Flagship mission concepts, and exoplanet news including water in the atmosphere of K2-18b
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr
Quizmaster Hugh takes to the conference hall at the 1st TESS Science Conference (TESSCon) to test the attendees’ exoplanet knowledge! Andrew compiles a (not very) top secret report-out on planetary protection. And Hannah covers this month’s news including the detection of an exoplanet magnetic field, new planets from TESS, a Kepler-load of 350 new candidates, as well as advances in exoplanet population statistics and atmospheric characterization.
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Exocast-36b: Live at AbSciCon, plus Spectroscopy 101, and the Exoplanet News
Jul 08, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Exocast-35b: Special guest Tom Haworth, Planet formation in extreme environments, ALMA observations, News, PDS-70b
May 28, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Exocast-34b: with special guest Raphaëlle Haywood, plus Isotope Geochronometers
May 07, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Exocast-33b: with special guest Jessie Dotson, plus Ice Giants
Apr 02, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Exocast-32b: featuring special guest Dr Jo Barstow, plus detecting the solar system from Trappist-1
Feb 26, 2019•57 min
On the 31th episode of Exocast: Hugh is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Science Journalist Lee Billings a writer for Scientific American and author of “5 billion years of Solitude”. Andrew dives into waterworlds inside and outside of our solar system and what we can learn about habitability. Hannah takes a look at what exoplanet news had been released over the past months and highlights the great work done by furloughed US scientists Read more...
Jan 25, 2019•1 hr 1 min
On the 30th episode of Exocast: Andrew is joined in the virtual exocast studio by Dr Jessie Christiansen from Caltech/NExSci to talk a little about her work on exoplanet demographics, catalogs, public outreach, and citizen science. Hannah provides an overview of last month’s #exocup, giving us a run down on the stats, the winners, losers, surprises and lessons learned. Hugh takes a look at what other exoplanet news had been released over the past month. Read more...
Dec 13, 2018•56 min
On the 29th episode of Exocast: Hannah is joined by Professor Sarah Hörst from Johns Hopkins University to talk about her lab and working on haze production for solar system planets and beyond. Hugh discusses the concept of Exomoons following the recent potential discovery. Andrew takes a look at the exoplanet news for the past month, and introduces the new format for the Exocup2018! And Sarah adds the not extra-solar, not planet, Titan to the exocast adopted Read more...
Oct 28, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Exocast-28b: Special guest Daniel Angerhausen, SOFIA, technosignatures, news, HD 209458b
Oct 05, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Exocast-27b: special guest Michael Gully-Santiago, K2, Exoplanet meetings, news, HAT-P-11b
Aug 02, 2018•1 hr 2 min
In the 26th episode of Exocast: Natasha Batalha joins Hannah for a chat about PandExo (the Exoplanet ETC for HST and JWST) and her work on Martian climate modelling. Hugh discusses all things radial velocity: history, current, and future prospects. Andrew covers all of June’s exoplanet news; And Natasha adds “Hannah’s special planet” HAT-P-26b to our gang of Adopted Planets
Jul 02, 2018•1 hr 6 min
In the 25th episode of Exocast: Jessica Spake joins us to chat about the first detection of exoplanetary Helium – around the planet Wasp-107b Andrew covers whether alien biology could exist in a Shadow Biosphere here on Earth. Hannah covers all of May’s exoplanet news; And Jess invites an old friend to the exocast adopted planets – 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet detected around a sun-like star.
May 28, 2018•57 min
Exocast-24b: Special guest Rus Belikov, direct imaging, Alpha Can, Titan, news, Ross-128b
Apr 30, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Exocast-23b: special guest Jayne Birkby, UKExoM, Gaia, news, WTS-2b
Apr 01, 2018•51 min
Exocast-22b: panspermia, exoplanet phases, news, Kepler-167e
Feb 28, 2018•47 min
Exocast-21b: planet formation, habitability of eccentric planets, news, Kepler-21b
Jan 30, 2018•59 min
In the 20th episode of Exocast we discuss all things #ExoCup What is the ExoCup? How was it conceived? What was the result? Why was it so stressful for the Exocast crew? We take a voxbox from some members of the exoplanet community on their opinions of the ExoCup (inc. Dr. Jessie Christiansen, Dr. Nikole Lewis, Dr. Natalie Batalha, Dr. Abhi Rajan); Andrew reports on the months interesting exoplanetary news that was still churning out Read more...
Dec 09, 2017•1 hr
Exocast-19b: origins of life part 2, software and machine learning, news, Proxima b
Oct 30, 2017•56 min
