Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 13 Jun 2026

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06/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 507

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:48:25

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (2 shows)

4. Goalhanger (1 shows)

5. Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Libsyn (11 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1359	Megaphone	58
2	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
3	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
4	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	539	Simplecast	63
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	64	Simplecast	73
7	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1437	Simplecast	63
8	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	351	Megaphone	69
9	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1583	Simplecast	58
10	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	199	Libsyn	62
11	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	344	Simplecast	63
12	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	370	Simplecast	52
13	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	546	Spotify for Podcasters	28
14	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	481	Megaphone	63
15	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
16	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	28	PRX	69
17	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
18	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
19	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
20	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	101	Megaphone	83
21	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
22	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
23	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	503	Buzzsprout	42
24	Songbirding	Rob Porter	Science	268	Transistor	69
25	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
26	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
27	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	376	Transistor	73
28	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
29	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	437	Libsyn	52
30	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	858	Omny Studio	48
31	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
32	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
33	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	47	Unknown	89
34	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	78	PRX	59
35	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
36	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	666	Megaphone	32
37	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
38	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	8	Simplecast	52
39	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	358	PRX	53
40	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	42	Acast	94
41	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
42	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	239	Megaphone	63
43	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1606	Unknown	48
44	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	419	Libsyn	37
45	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
46	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
47	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
48	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	417	Megaphone	48
49	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	52	Podbean	62
50	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
51	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	144	Omny Studio	42
52	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	91	ART19	52
53	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
54	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1990	Megaphone	38
55	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	339	Acast	49
56	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	125	Acast	59
57	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	81	Audioboom	59
58	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	382	ART19	42
59	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	242	Unknown	73
60	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	494	Audioboom	53
61	Life List: A Birding Podcast	George Armistead, Alvaro Jaramillo, and Mollee Brown	Science	147	Buzzsprout	62
62	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	445	Megaphone	62
63	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
64	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	249	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	41	Spotify for Podcasters	48
66	The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh	Atmos	Science	35	Simplecast	68
67	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
68	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
69	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	243	BBC	38
70	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	676	BBC	38
71	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	633	Spreaker	69
72	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	462	Spreaker	59
73	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	150	Simplecast	58
74	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
75	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	391	Podbean	41
76	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	237	Spreaker	49
77	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
78	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
79	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	643	Megaphone	58
80	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	706	Libsyn	43
81	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	383	Audioboom	63
82	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
83	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
84	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1151	BBC	28
85	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
86	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	120	N/A	N/A
87	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	817	Spreaker	54
88	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	314	Spreaker	84
89	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
90	Lost Women of Science	Lost Women of Science	Science	160	PRX	69
91	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1099	PRX	63
92	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	475	Megaphone	53
93	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	640	Spreaker	54
94	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
95	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
96	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1369	Omny Studio	38
97	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	348	Simplecast	53
98	Big Brains	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Science	226	Simplecast	63
99	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
100	Cryptids Of The Corn	Cryptids of the Corn Podcast	Science	594	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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