Host:

Fraser Cain (

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Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

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This Week's Stories:

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies at 83

Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy Leaves a Lasting Legacy

Life on Europa? Scientists Ponder the Possibilities

SpaceX to Upgrade Drone Ship for Next Falcon Landing Attempt

ATV Break-Up Camera Misses Cargo Tug's Final Fiery Plunge

New Experiment Doesn't See Fifth Force, Rules Out Class of Dark Energy Models

Google Lunar XPrize Teams Partner for a 2016 SpaceX Moonshot

Congressional Hearing this Week to Focus on Commercial Space

NASA Announces Winning Ideas for Mars Balance Mass Challenge

Saturn Super-Storm Reveals Water Ice

Mars One Plan to Colonise Red Planet Unrealistic, Says Leading Supported

Dawn Approaches: Two Faces of Ceres

SpaceX Pushes Eutelsat Launch Back to March 1st

Mars One Loses Television Deal

NASA Eyes New Mars Orbiter for 2022

Improved Vision for James Webb Space Telescope

Russian Space Agency Endorses ISS Until 2024

Curiosity Rover Drilling at Pink Cliffs

An Impossibly Large Black Hole has been Detected

"Bright Spot" on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion

Have Americans Given Up on Going to Space?

Successful Spacewalk Ends with Water Leak

TWiM: Legless Falcon 9 Conducts Static Fire Test Ahead of Sunday Launch

UCLA Physicists Offer a Solution to the Puzzle of the Origin of Matter in the Universe

"Golden Stars" Flicker in Patters Taht Da Vinci Would Love

NASA Missions May Re-Elevate Pluto and Ceres from Dwarf Planets to Full-on Planet Status

Looking Deeply into the Universe in 3D

A Galaxy Next Door: Infrared observations of classical Cepheid stars accurately measure the true average distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)

A New Supermassive Plack Hole Puzzles Scientists

Pockets of Calm Protect Molecules Around a Supermassive Black Hole

How do Phobos and Deimos Look From Mars?

Inside the Roc's Lair

Stars Found Forming at Milky Way's Outer Edge

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