Explore every episode of the podcast The Habitable Zone
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EP 18: From Ice-Cold Earths to Planetary Destruction | 15 Feb 2026 | 00:19:53 | |
In this episode, we will be covering the discovery of a new earth-sized exoplanet candidate and circumbinary systems. Sources: Exoplanet: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adf06f Circumbinary system: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae21d8 This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Contact us at contactthehabitablezone@gmail.com | |||
| EP 20: The Asteroid That Carried Life’s Ingredients | 01 Mar 2026 | 00:06:35 | |
In this episode, we will be covering new findings from asteroid Bennu samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and how they suggest that the building blocks of life may have formed in cold regions of space long before Earth existed. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2512461122 This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Contact us at contactthehabitablezone@gmail.com | |||
| EP 19: Cosmic Chemical Factories | 01 Mar 2026 | 00:06:42 | |
In this episode, we will be covering how the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered complex organic molecules inside a dust-hidden galaxy and what this discovery reveals about how chemistry forms in extreme cosmic environments. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02750-0 This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Contact us at contactthehabitablezone@gmail.com | |||
| EP 21: From Jupiter’s Icy Moons to Planets Beyond the Milky Way | 07 Mar 2026 | 00:23:30 | |
In this episode, we will be covering new research suggesting Jupiter’s icy moons may have received the chemical building blocks for life during their formation, as well as a study searching for the first extragalactic exoplanets in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy stream using data from the TESS space telescope. We will also explore what these discoveries mean for the origins of life and the possibility of planets beyond the Milky Way. Sources: Jupiter's Moon: https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ae3559 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2074 Hot Jupiters: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.15105 This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Contact us at contactthehabitablezone@gmail.com | |||
| EP 22: Millenia of Nucleobases and Hours of Orbit | 30 Mar 2026 | 00:28:09 | |
In this episode, we will discuss the existence of Nucleobases in the universe, and a new planet with an ultra-short period. Sources: Nucleobases: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02824-7 TOI-4552 B: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.18233 This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Contact us at contactthehabitablezone@gmail.com | |||