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PBS Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth. Host Matt O'Dowd breaks down both the basic and incredibly complex sides of space and time.

How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?
What if the Big Bang was just an endless cycle?
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How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?
What if the Big Bang was just an endless cycle?
Why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups?
The universe should've collapsed after the Big Bang, but a light Higgs boson let us exist.
Maybe dark energy doesn't exist?
Dark matter has eluded us for many decades but we may be able to discover more now.
What do you get if you combine something that’s infinitely massive and negative infinitely massive?
What does an electron really look like?
Is there a limit to how much energy you can cram into, or pull out of one patch of space?
I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom!
Gravitational tsunamis exist and we’re on the verge of being able to detect them.
Will we ever become a Kardeshev Type-1 civilization and how can we get there?
New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates.
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.
We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.
Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
Can we change the color of a black hole?
Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth.
All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.
Just how much stronger is this year’s solar activity going to get?
So you’ve decided to jump into a black hole...
We only recently figured out where cosmic rays are coming from.
Black hole complementarity may force us to rethink what it means to say that it exists.
To travel the stars without faster than light travel we’re going to need a generation ship.
Today we are jumping into a black hole. Again.
The Moon: humanity’s first destination beyond our atmosphere.
So how did humans figure out the solar system? Eclipses!
Is gravity just an emergent effect of entropy?
Is our 3-D universe is just the inward projection of an infinitely distant boundary?
What if aliens are deliberately keeping quiet for fear that they might be destroyed?
So what exactly is an EMP, and how dangerous are they?
The terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.
Stephen Hawking's most famous prediction: the theory of Hawking Radiation.
We may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.
Does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?
Extras
Primordial black holes may be lurking throughout our universe.
Let's settle the quantum entanglement once and for all.
Many have tried to speculate about what the fate of the universe would be.