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ANNOUNCEMENT: SMOLOGIES NOW HAS ITS OWN FEED! SUBSCRIBE FOR NEW EPISODES EVERY THURSDAY.

A Smologies kid-friendly version of… ALIENS! EXTRATERRESTRIALS! MARTIANS! The phenomenal Dr. Kevin Peter Hand of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory dishes on the oceans of distant moons, methane rivers, ice crusts, the James Webb Space Telescope findings, what might be out there, aliens, what elements a planet needs to sustain life, and how finding extraterrestrial microbes would change the way we see life on this here tiny blue dot in space.

Listen via Stitcher, Apple, Podbay, Podcast Addict, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

More kid-safe Smologies episodes

Dr. Kevin Peter Hand's book: Alien Oceans: the Search for Life in the Depths of Space

Dr. Kevin Peter Hand on Twitter and Instagram

Donations went to Travelling Telescope & Vermont's Manchester Rescue Squad

Full-length non-Smologies Astrobiology (ALIENS) episode — with some swear words

Some links you may find of use:

Dr. Hand’s CV

Sagan gets beachy

Planetary porridge: the Goldilocks theory

Salty bizness: Abstract of Dr. Hand’s dissertation

Communicating with the Mothership a.k.a. ur new ringtone