This Week in Space (Video)
Hosted by Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik · TWiT
4.3from 23 ratings
- 137
- Episodes
- 20
- Transcribed
- 23
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 80M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Space (Video)
The new space age is upon us, and This Week in Space leaves no topic untouched. Every Friday, join Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine, Rod Pyle and Managing Editor of Space.com, Tariq Malik as they explore everything related to the cosmos. You can join Club TWiT (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast (https://twit.memberful.com/checkout?plan=134290) ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes posted every Friday.
- Publisher
- TWiT
- Category
- science · science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
20 of 137 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiS 230: Living on Lava Worlds - Atmospheres on Lava-Covered Exoplanets
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiS 229: Is It Starship's Time? - Test Flight 14 to Orbit
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiS 228: What's a HOTOL? - Britain in Space
Inside a recent episode
TWiS 230: Living on Lava Worlds - Atmospheres on Lava-Covered Exoplanets
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So the atmosphere is getting blasted away. They are losing a fair amount of atmosphere, and eventually they'll probably lose their entire atmosphere. But they have this reservoir that they managed to retain a lot of volatiles trapped in this liquid rock. And as the atmosphere gets stripped off, it just outgasses a little bit more. So... So it's kind of like a one, let me know if I get this right. Cause I'm very, I don't understand like a lot of basic things, but it's, I know like how the water cycle sustains our atmosphere on earth. And this sounds like a magma version that just, it keeps going out like a one way version where it keeps spitting it out to like, keep filling up the tanks, if you will. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on This Week in Space (Video)
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Laura Schaefer
- Rob Coppinger
- Mike Okuda
- Michael Okuda
- Rainer Zitelmann
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 79,609,729
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 23 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 81
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Who hosts This Week in Space (Video)?
Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host the show. Published by TWiT.
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The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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