October 2023
Exploration of the Solar System via Sample Return Missions | Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa, Arizona State University
Bringing Mars Samples Back to Earth | Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa, Arizona State University
October 2022
OSIRIS-REx and Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu - Returning a Sample of the Early Solar System | Professor Dante Lauretta, The University of Arizona
Playing Tag with an Asteroid - NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission at Asteroid Bennu | Professor Dante Lauretta, The University of Arizona
November & December 2021
Sampling the Solar System: A key in our quest to understand Earth's origin and evolution | Professor Kevin McKeegan, University of California - Los Angeles
The Laboratory Analysis of Solar Matter and Implications for Nebula Chemistry | Professor Kevin McKeegan, University of California - Los Angeles
November 2019
Exploring the Warped Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes | Professor Emeritus Kip S. Thorne, California Institute of Technology
November 2018
How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet | Professor David Charbonneau, Harvard University
The Terrestrial Planets of Other Stars | Professor David Charbonneau, Harvard University
October 2017
Optical Atomic Clock and Applications | Professor Jun Ye, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado
Cold Molecules - A New Playground for Quantum and Chemical Physics | Professor Jun Ye, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado
November 2016
Einstein, Gravitational Waves and Black Holes | Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Spokesperson for the LIGO Collaboration, Louisiana State University
Searching for -- and Finding! Gravitational Waves | Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Spokesperson for the LIGO Collaboration, Louisiana State University
November 2015
The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space | Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, Vice Provost for Special Projects, California Institute of Technology
Voyager Explores the Edge of Interstellar Space | Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, Vice Provost for Special Projects, California Institute of Technology
October 2014
Black Holes | Professor Ramesh Narayan, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Astrophysical Black Holes | Professor Ramesh Narayan, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
November 2013
Booms, Burps & Bumps: The Dynamic Universe | Professor Shrinivas Kulkarni, McArthur Professor of Astronomy & Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology
There Is More Room Sideways | Professor Shrinivas Kulkarni, McArthur Professor of Astronomy & Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology
November 2012
Perspectives on the First Billion Years of Lunar Evolution from Spacecraft | Maria Zuber, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Water on the Moon | Maria Zuber, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 2011
NASA at mid-life: The future of human space exploration | Dr. Charles F. Kennel, Chair of the National Academies Space Studies Board
Managing Climate Risk: Precarious Decades Ahead | Dr. Charles F. Kennel, Chair of the National Academies Space Studies Board
October 2010
Astronaut Preparation | Astronaut Lieutenant Colonel, Robert L. Behnken
Missions to the International Space Station | Astronaut Lieutenant Colonel, Robert L. Behnken
October 2009
Mars as the Abode of Life? | Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
October 2008
Mars: Environments, Habitability, and Life | Raymond E. Arvidson, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis