Space

“Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."

Why is it called the Strawberry Super Moon?

Boldly trying to answer listener questions no podcast has answered before (maybe).

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. This week, we encounter a question about space. Jazmine Castro-Diaz asked on Instagram:“What does the future of space travel look like in terms of environmental sustainability? Like fuel, effects of launches, et cetera?”

This week, Francisco Alexander Rodriguez on Instagram asked us to look into the Dark Forest Theory.

Artist Jennifer Benn’s painting, “Mercury XIII” is an homage to 13 women who could have been America’s first women astronauts in the 1960s.

An engineering lab received two grants from NASA to conduct research on icy worlds in our solar system.

Early risers across the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see an eclipse Thursday morning when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun.

Starting at the curb and working our way up, we spend this episode learning about which creatures take advantage of our waste-water systems; find evidence of extraterrestrial travel on our rooftops; and we look at how gutters function – or don’t – for the very species that designed them.