Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. Go asteroid hunting, explore faraway galaxies, and watch a black hole as it begins to form. First-time space explorers welcome.

Welcome to NASA’s Curious Universe. Our universe is a wonderful place. And in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide. Subscribe right now, and get ready for a grand adventure.

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AMBER STRAUGHN:The thing about astronomy is that it gets to the heart of the big questions that we have as human beings. Where did we come from? Are we alone in the universe?

HOST PADI BOYD: Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Welcome to NASA’s Curious Universe. In this podcast, NASA is your tour guide.

ASTRONAUT SAMANTHA CRISTOFERETTI: For the past twenty years, we have been a spacefaring civilization. If you were born after the year 2000, you haven’t lived a single day without human beings in space.

DANTE LAURETTA: Almost seventeen years of my career has been focused on this one day to make sure everything goes according to plan.

HEATHER ENOS: It really all happens in less than twenty seconds.

SAM DOVE:Think of something that’s moving very slow, around .8 or .9 miles an hour, moving this big rocket down the road.

JOHN GILES: It just goes Brrrrrrr and it just gets louder and louder.

JEREMY SCHNITTMAN:We actually think there are close to a hundred million black holes just in the milky way alone all sprinkled around dead ashes of stars.

AMBER STRAUGHN: It’s those mysteries that are out there in the universe that we haven’t even dreamed of yet. I think the universe is going to surprise us.

HOST PADI BOYD:NASA’s Curious Universe season two. Coming to your ears this October.

HOST PADI BOYD:Subscribe right now, and get ready for a grand adventure.