How did water get on the Moon? What can computer simulations tell us about the formation of the Moon? Our guest, Dr. Parvathy Prem, talks about how she ended up doing research on the Moon, and why we should be concerned about the upcoming settl...

Astrobiology is going through a boom. We are hearing about new discoveries almost every day and new instruments promise many more to come. Our guest, Dr. Graham Lau, talks about topics ranging from how to search for technosignatures from alien ...

Here is a conversation with space educator and space tourist, Ron Rosano. For more information about Kainaat Studios:

Professor Determann has been writing about fascinating topics, from biological evolution and space sciences in the Arab States to Islamic science fiction and diversity in astronomy. Here is a Kainaati Chai conversation about "first contact" and...

[Urdu Subtitles are available] There is often an idealism associated with space. However, space agencies and space companies, from the beginning have been engaged in dual-use technology - the same technology that can be used for going into spac...

Thirty years ago, astronomers made history by discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. Now, we've confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets—some Earth-like, others completely alien! 🌌 But how do scientists detect these distant worlds? An...

The universe is unimaginably vast, and a new discovery highlights its immense scale: black hole jets stretching an incredible 23 million light-years across—making them the largest astronomical structure ever observed. For perspective, that’s ov...

🌌 For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope has detected brown dwarfs outside our galaxy! These unique objects, smaller than stars but much larger than planets like Jupiter, offer incredible insights into the process of star forma...

🌍 Jupiter's moon, Europa, is one of the most promising locations in our solar system for finding alien life! Beneath its thick ice sheet lies a vast salt-water ocean, making it a key target for NASA's Europa Clipper Mission. Launched in 2024, t...

We know that black holes exist. One of the types of black holes is roughly on the scale of the mass of our Sun. They form when the large-scale ones die. Then there are supermassive black holes that exist at the centers of galaxies. These can ha...

Mars continues to captivate scientists and space enthusiasts alike! While we've discovered over 5,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, the Red Planet remains one of the most intriguing within our solar system. Billions of years ago, Mars had ...

Pakistan's first satellite to the Moon, ICUBE Q, is part of China's Chang'e 6 mission to the far side of the Moon. How should we think about Pakistan's mission? Why is China going to the far side of the Moon, and what will we learn from it? Ple...

Solar eclipses are special! They break the routine of the day to remind us of the skies. In fact, there is a solar eclipse on April 8th, that will be visible in North America. But solar eclipses have played a crucial role in history of science....

We know today that our universe is huge and that it contains more than a hundred billion galaxies! But this view of the universe is only a hundred years old. What is fascinating is that a particular type of star, called Cepheids, is primarily r...

When large stars die, they end up as a blackhole. We know this as one of the ways to form a blackhole. But there has been a puzzle. How do you form supermassive blackholes that exist at the center of almost all galaxies? Now, theoretical models...

Are we on the verge of discovering new physics or is this a modest debate within cosmology that is hyped up by headlines? The issue at the center is the expansion rate of the universe. Two different methods give two different answers. There sho...

The ozone layer is crucial for life. Its formation allowed life to evolve from oceans to live on land, resulting in complex lifeforms such as mammals. But we know that the ozone layer is also fragile. Some of the ozone layer was damaged by chem...

We know that the Moon formed when a Mars-sized protoplanet, Theia, slammed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. But what happened to Theia? A new study published in the journal Nature suggests that the remnants of Theia are inside the Earth....

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets around other stars. But now, for the first time, they have discovered binary planets. These were discovered by James Webb Space Telescope in the Orion nebula. We still don't know how they were fo...

NASA's Osiris Rex mission brought samples from asteroid Bennu. Japanese mission Hayabusa 2 brought back samples from asteroid Ryugu. Why are these samples important? What do we learn from them? Please join astrophysicist Salman Hameed in explor...

Can we see the very first galaxies in the universe? Maybe. Because the speed of light is finite, the farther away you see, the longer the light takes to get to us. This way, astronomy allows us to see a universe that is younger. James Webb Spac...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission landed in the south-polar region of the Moon. We are also going to see a flurry of space missions to the same area in the coming months, including the Chinese Change' 6 mission, and NASA's Artemis. What is going on...

The first images of James Webb Telescope images were released just over a year ago. To celebrate this anniversary, here we talk about two images that highlight not only its science, but also its beauty and wonder. Please join astrophysicist Sal...

In July, a former intelligence office, David Grusch, testified that the US is in possession of spacecrafts from other planets. In fact, he also said that some non-human "biologics" have also been recovered from the crashed alien spacecrafts. No...

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. They were first directly detected in 2015 with LIGO and those were mostly the result of the collision of two star-size black holes. But now in a fascinating way, ast...