Interview

The host of the popular Gravity Assist podcast talks to Astrobiology Magazine’s Keith Cooper about why he feels the show is giving back something important to the listeners.

Astrobiology Magazine sat down with Bill Nye to talk about Mars exploration and his recent on-air pummeling on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Dr. Phoebe A. Cohen is a Professor of Geosciences at Williams College and is involved in numerous research projects with the NASA Astrobiology Program. Cohen studies the fossil record to uncover clues about the evolution of complex life on Earth. In her work, she studies

What if, in our quest to find another Earth, we light upon another Venus?

Astrobiology Magazine speaks with Munir Humayun about a recent study of the martian meteorite 'Black Beauty.'

In this interview, MIT scientist Sara Seager explains how a revised Drake equation could help people think about the odds of finding signs of life on a distant planet in the next decade.

HI-SEAS Commander Angelo Vermeulen talks about the lessons learned during the 120-day simulation of a human settlement on Mars.

What is life? In this interview, Gerry Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute reveals why it’s been so hard for scientists to come up with a definition that encompasses the multiple dimensions of life as we know it.

In this interview, Dr. David Grinspoon discusses the implications of the Anthropocene -- a timescale defined by humanity as a geological force shaping the global landscape and evolution of our planet.

Scott Hubbard helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. Here he explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.