Clearing my podcast queue elicits a sense of panic in me. The need to know that there’s an audio clip on deck at any moment to fill my ears and mind with knowledge, chatter, or white noise is a ...

and Natalie Batalha, the current lead scientist for NASA’s Kepler space telescope, who has helped find approximately 4,700 new worlds since 2009. If life exists on the closest of these ...

The findings are considered preliminary until full results are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Batalha noted that some ...