NASA's Curious Universe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
4.5from 958 ratings
- 109
- Episodes
- 36
- Transcribed
- 958
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 932M
- YouTube views
About NASA's Curious Universe
An official NASA podcast bringing you mind-blowing stories you won’t find anywhere else. What does it take to launch a rocket? What happens when we go looking for life beyond Earth? And what can the universe teach us next? With extraordinary access to the people and places behind NASA’s exploration of space, Curious Universe brings you closer to the discoveries shaping what we know about our universe. Don’t forget your curiosity.
- Publisher
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Category
- kids & family · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
36 of 109 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Encore: Welcome to the Dark Side
5 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roman Series: Liftoff!
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roman Series: Why NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Make Unexpected Discoveries
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Encore: Welcome to the Dark Side
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This is Ami Choi. She's an astrophysicist based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. I study the universe on the largest scales, really just the biggest picture. I am interested in what the universe is made out of, and then also the history of it and how it evolved to what we see today. We may not totally understand dark matter, but we do know there's a lot of it. It makes up about 25% of the universe, but we can't see dark matter, and it barely interacts with us here on Earth. We notice it when we look on the scale of galaxies, including our own, or clusters made up of many galaxies. Dark matter is a type of matter that we indirectly observe through its gravitational effects. […]
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- Julie McEnery
- Bertrand Mennesson
- Vanessa Bailey
- Josh Schlieder
- Alina Kiessling
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- 4.5 / 5
- 958 ratings
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- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 91
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