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PBS Space Time (2015–present) on PBS

The answer: Between seasons — last episode May 21, 2026, no return date announced yet.
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Network / streamer
PBS
Premiered
February 11, 2015
Runtime
~15 min per episode
12seasons
431episodes

About PBS Space Time

PBS Space Time is currently between seasons. The show last aired an episode on April 2, 2026, and there is no confirmed return date at this time.

PBS Space Time is a web series hosted by Matthew O'Dowd that explores the vastness of space, astrophysics, and science fiction concepts. The series, which premiered in 2015, delves into complex topics such as the nature of the universe, time travel, and the physics behind cosmic phenomena.

The show features Matthew O'Dowd as the host, and each episode has a runtime of approximately 15 minutes.

PBS Space Time episode schedule

431 aired

Aired · 431

DateEp.Title
May 21, 2026 S2026·E9 We Thought Black Holes Ended in Singularities. They Might End In a Frozen Big Bang.
April 30, 2026 S2026·E8 We Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe
April 16, 2026 S2026·E7 Earth's Core Should Be Impossible. A New State of Matter Explains It.
April 2, 2026 S2026·E6 The Time Travel Paradox Hidden Inside Einstein's Relativity
March 19, 2026 S2026·E5 There's No Life On Mars. But Underneath It
February 19, 2026 S2026·E4 We Timed a Cosmic Explosion. It Might Solve Dark Energy
February 5, 2026 S2026·E3 How Gravity's Greatest Secret Might Finally Be Unlocked
January 22, 2026 S2026·E2 This Particle Solved Everything. We Just Found Out It Isn't Real
January 13, 2026 S2026·E1 The Universe Itself Might Be Hiding the Gravity Particle From Us
December 18, 2025 S2025·E26 Black Holes. Explained. For 1.5 Hours
December 11, 2025 S2025·E25 Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Explain It
November 25, 2025 S2025·E24 Do We Live in the Rarest Solar System In The Universe
November 13, 2025 S2025·E23 The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It?
October 30, 2025 S2025·E22 Why Antimatter Engines Could Launch In Your Lifetime
October 16, 2025 S2025·E21 We Were WRONG About the Quantum Eraser!
October 2, 2025 S2025·E20 Why Life on Mars Will DOOM Humanity
September 18, 2025 S2025·E19 At What Point Does Spacetime Become Quantum?
September 4, 2025 S2025·E18 The Most Important Satellite You've (Probably) Never Heard Of
August 14, 2025 S2025·E17 Is There Evidence For a Vast Multiverse?
July 31, 2025 S2025·E16 Why The Multiverse Could Be Real
July 17, 2025 S2025·E15 Why Is All DNA Right Handed?
June 26, 2025 S2025·E14 The Crisis In Physics Is The Universe Random Or Finely Tuned
June 12, 2025 S2025·E13 The Crisis In Physics Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality
May 29, 2025 S2025·E12 Is Our Model of Dark Energy WRONG?
May 15, 2025 S2025·E11 Is There A Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox?
May 1, 2025 S2025·E10 Quantum Energy Teleportation is REAL!
April 17, 2025 S2025·E9 Why Didn't Antimatter Destroy The Universe? | LHC Breakthrough
April 3, 2025 S2025·E8 NEW EVIDENCE: Earth Had Rings (and Might Regain Them)
March 13, 2025 S2025·E7 How Astrophysics Can (LITERALLY) Save the World
March 6, 2025 S2025·E6 Your DNA Is (Almost Certainly) From Outer Space
Show next 200 of 401 earlier episodes
February 20, 2025 S2025·E5 Will The Big Bang Happen AGAIN (and Again)?
February 13, 2025 S2025·E4 The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy
January 30, 2025 S2025·E3 The Crisis in Physics: Why the Higgs Boson Should NOT Exist!
January 23, 2025 S2025·E2 Does Timescapes Disprove Dark Energy
January 17, 2025 S2025·E1 How Many Black Holes Are In The Solar System
December 19, 2024 S2024·E33 Does Infinity minus infinity equal an Electron
December 12, 2024 S2024·E32 What Does An Electron ACTUALLY Look Like?
December 5, 2024 S2024·E31 The New Ultimate Energy Limit of the Universe
November 21, 2024 S2024·E30 Is E=MC^2 Incomplete?
November 14, 2024 S2024·E29 Can Space Time Remember?
November 7, 2024 S2024·E28 How Can Humanity Become a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization?
October 17, 2024 S2024·E27 Do Neutron Stars Shine In Dark Matter?
October 10, 2024 S2024·E26 What If The Cosmological Constant Is NOT Constant?
September 26, 2024 S2024·E25 What If The Universe DID NOT Start With The Big Bang?
September 19, 2024 S2024·E24 The NEW PHYSICS of Black Hole Star Capture | Extreme Tidal Disruption Events
September 12, 2024 S2024·E23 What If Gravity Isn't Quantum? New Experiments Explore
August 22, 2024 S2024·E22 Is Gravity RANDOM Not Quantum?
August 15, 2024 S2024·E21 Can We Create New Elements Beyond the Periodic Table?
August 1, 2024 S2024·E20 Colored Black Holes Explained
July 25, 2024 S2024·E19 Was Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain
July 18, 2024 S2024·E18 How To Detect Faster Than Light Travel
June 27, 2024 S2024·E17 Can a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor Force?
June 20, 2024 S2024·E16 Will The Sun's Magnetic Field Flip This Year?
June 13, 2024 S2024·E15 Is It IMPOSSIBLE To Cross The Event Horizon? | Black Hole Firewall Paradox
May 30, 2024 S2024·E14 How Supernovas Act as Universe's Largest Particle Accelerators
May 16, 2024 S2024·E13 Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics
May 16, 2024 S2024·E12 Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel
May 1, 2024 S2024·E11 What Happens To Quantum Information Inside A Black Hole?
April 18, 2024 S2024·E10 Why Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
April 6, 2024 S2024·E9 How Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System
March 28, 2024 S2024·E8 What If Gravity is NOT A Fundamental Force? | Entropic Gravity
March 21, 2024 S2024·E7 Does Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
March 14, 2024 S2024·E6 Dark Forest: Should We NOT Contact Aliens?
February 29, 2024 S2024·E5 EMP Attack: The Real Science of Electromagnetic Pulse
February 22, 2024 S2024·E4 What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
February 14, 2024 S2024·E3 Did JWST SOLVE The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origins?
January 17, 2024 S2024·E2 Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
January 10, 2024 S2024·E1 Can The Crisis in Cosmology Be SOLVED With Cosmic Voids?
December 20, 2023 S2023·E33 What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun? | Hawking Stars
December 7, 2023 S2023·E32 What if Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis
November 30, 2023 S2023·E31 Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
November 9, 2023 S2023·E30 What If Gravity is NOT Quantum?
November 2, 2023 S2023·E29 How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
October 19, 2023 S2023·E28 Why Did Attosecond Physics Win the NOBEL PRIZE?
September 28, 2023 S2023·E27 Are Pilot Wave & Many Worlds THE SAME Theory?
September 20, 2023 S2023·E26 Are Room Temperature Superconductors IMPOSSIBLE?
September 13, 2023 S2023·E25 What NEW SCIENCE Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
August 24, 2023 S2023·E24 What If Space is NOT Empty?
August 16, 2023 S2023·E23 Did JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars?
August 2, 2023 S2023·E22 Do We Need a NEW Dark Matter Model?
July 26, 2023 S2023·E21 Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?
July 19, 2023 S2023·E20 What If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
June 28, 2023 S2023·E19 Does Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
June 21, 2023 S2023·E18 Did AI Prove Our Proton Model WRONG?
June 14, 2023 S2023·E17 What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?
May 31, 2023 S2023·E16 Can We Move PLANET EARTH Across the Universe?
May 24, 2023 S2023·E15 Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
May 17, 2023 S2023·E14 Could LIGO Find MASSIVE Alien Spaceships?
May 11, 2023 S2023·E13 Fermions Vs. Bosons Explained with Statistical Mechanics!
April 20, 2023 S2023·E12 NEW DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
April 12, 2023 S2023·E11 How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Expand?
March 29, 2023 S2023·E10 How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
March 22, 2023 S2023·E9 What If Black Holes ARE Dark Energy?
March 15, 2023 S2023·E8 What's Your Brain's Role in Creating Space & Time?
March 15, 2023 S2023·E7 What If Space & Time Are Created By Our Brains?
February 23, 2023 S2023·E6 Are Space And Time Real?
February 15, 2023 S2023·E5 How Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
February 8, 2023 S2023·E4 How Earth REALLY Moves Through the Galaxy
January 26, 2023 S2023·E3 What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
January 18, 2023 S2023·E2 What If The Universe Is Math?
January 11, 2023 S2023·E1 Did The Moon Form in 24 Hours?
December 14, 2022 S2022·E34 How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?
December 8, 2022 S2022·E33 How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
November 23, 2022 S2022·E32 How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
November 16, 2022 S2022·E31 Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
November 9, 2022 S2022·E30 What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?
October 26, 2022 S2022·E29 Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
October 19, 2022 S2022·E28 The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
October 12, 2022 S2022·E27 The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
September 28, 2022 S2022·E26 Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?
September 21, 2022 S2022·E25 How YOU Can Use JWST
September 14, 2022 S2022·E24 Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
August 24, 2022 S2022·E23 What Makes The Strong Force Strong?
August 17, 2022 S2022·E22 What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
August 3, 2022 S2022·E21 What Happens Inside a Proton?
July 27, 2022 S2022·E20 How Many States Of Matter Are There?
July 20, 2022 S2022·E19 What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
June 30, 2022 S2022·E18 Could We Decode Alien Physics?
June 22, 2022 S2022·E17 Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?
June 15, 2022 S2022·E16 Has The Black Hole Information Paradox Been SOLVED?
June 1, 2022 S2022·E15 What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality?
May 25, 2022 S2022·E14 How Was the Modern Milky Way Born?
May 18, 2022 S2022·E13 What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
May 4, 2022 S2022·E12 Does The Universe Expand Everywhere?
April 27, 2022 S2022·E11 Why Does the W Boson's Mass Matter?
April 20, 2022 S2022·E10 Does the Universe Create Itself?
March 30, 2022 S2022·E9 Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
March 23, 2022 S2022·E8 Where Is The Center of The Universe?
March 16, 2022 S2022·E7 What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
March 8, 2022 S2022·E6 Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
February 23, 2022 S2022·E5 Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?
February 16, 2022 S2022·E4 Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
January 27, 2022 S2022·E3 How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
January 19, 2022 S2022·E2 How To Build The Universe in a Computer
January 12, 2022 S2022·E1 How To Simulate The Universe With DFT
December 29, 2021 S2021·E35 How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
December 20, 2021 S2021·E34 What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth?
November 17, 2021 S2021·E33 Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?
November 10, 2021 S2021·E32 What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?
November 2, 2021 S2021·E31 Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?
October 20, 2021 S2021·E30 Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
October 13, 2021 S2021·E29 New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
October 5, 2021 S2021·E28 Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
September 21, 2021 S2021·E27 How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
September 15, 2021 S2021·E26 Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe
September 7, 2021 S2021·E25 First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
August 18, 2021 S2021·E24 How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe
August 10, 2021 S2021·E23 How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
August 3, 2021 S2021·E22 How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology
July 21, 2021 S2021·E21 How Magnetism Shapes The Universe
July 13, 2021 S2021·E20 Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?
July 7, 2021 S2021·E19 Electrons DO NOT Spin
June 23, 2021 S2021·E18 How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
June 16, 2021 S2021·E17 Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?
June 9, 2021 S2021·E16 The (Slow) Crisis Of Space Junk
May 25, 2021 S2021·E15 What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?
May 19, 2021 S2021·E14 Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
May 11, 2021 S2021·E13 How To Know If It's Aliens
April 21, 2021 S2021·E12 The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
April 13, 2021 S2021·E11 What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?
April 7, 2021 S2021·E10 Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
March 23, 2021 S2021·E9 Can You Freeze A Quantum System By Observing It?
March 16, 2021 S2021·E8 The NEW Crisis in Cosmology
March 9, 2021 S2021·E7 How Does Gravity Affect Light?
February 24, 2021 S2021·E6 Does Time Cause Gravity?
February 17, 2021 S2021·E5 Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
February 10, 2021 S2021·E4 How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time?
January 26, 2021 S2021·E3 Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?
January 19, 2021 S2021·E2 Can We Break the Universe?
January 12, 2021 S2021·E1 What Happens During a Quantum Jump?
December 22, 2020 S2020·E41 Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
December 15, 2020 S2020·E40 The Supernovas At The End of The Universe
December 8, 2020 S2020·E39 Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?
November 18, 2020 S2020·E38 The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It
November 11, 2020 S2020·E37 Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?
November 4, 2020 S2020·E36 Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces
October 27, 2020 S2020·E35 How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time
October 20, 2020 S2020·E34 Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics?
October 13, 2020 S2020·E33 Do the Past and Future Exist?
October 5, 2020 S2020·E32 Venus May Have Life!
September 28, 2020 S2020·E31 Solving Quantum Cryptography
September 21, 2020 S2020·E30 Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?
September 8, 2020 S2020·E29 The Truth About Beauty in Physics
September 1, 2020 S2020·E28 How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
August 24, 2020 S2020·E27 Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?
August 17, 2020 S2020·E26 How Stars Destroy Each Other
July 20, 2020 S2020·E25 The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
July 8, 2020 S2020·E24 Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?
June 30, 2020 S2020·E23 Dissolving an Event Horizon
June 22, 2020 S2020·E22 Building Black Holes in a Lab
June 15, 2020 S2020·E21 What Happens After the Universe Ends?
June 8, 2020 S2020·E20 Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
May 27, 2020 S2020·E19 Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
May 18, 2020 S2020·E18 Mapping the Multiverse
May 11, 2020 S2020·E17 How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
May 4, 2020 S2020·E16 How We Know the Universe is Ancient
April 22, 2020 S2020·E15 Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
April 14, 2020 S2020·E14 Was the Milky Way a Quasar?
April 7, 2020 S2020·E13 How We Know the Earth is Ancient
March 31, 2020 S2020·E12 What's on the Other Side of a Black Hole?
March 24, 2020 S2020·E11 How Black Holes Spin Space Time
March 16, 2020 S2020·E10 How Do Quantum States Manifest in the Classical World?
March 3, 2020 S2020·E9 Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
February 24, 2020 S2020·E8 How Decoherence Splits the Quantum Multiverse
February 18, 2020 S2020·E7 Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
February 11, 2020 S2020·E6 Are Axions Dark Matter?
February 3, 2020 S2020·E5 Are There Infinite Versions of You?
January 27, 2020 S2020·E4 Hacking the Nature of Reality
January 20, 2020 S2020·E3 Solutions to the Three Body Problem
January 13, 2020 S2020·E2 How to Capture Black Holes
January 6, 2020 S2020·E1 How to Capture Ghost Particles
December 17, 2019 S2019·E40 Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
December 9, 2019 S2019·E39 The Doomsday Argument
December 2, 2019 S2019·E38 Is the Universe Finite?
November 18, 2019 S2019·E37 Can You Observe a Typical Universe?
November 11, 2019 S2019·E36 Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
November 4, 2019 S2019·E35 Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe
October 21, 2019 S2019·E34 Is Time Travel Impossible?
October 15, 2019 S2019·E33 Loop Quantum Gravity Explained
October 7, 2019 S2019·E32 Black Hole Harmonics
September 30, 2019 S2019·E31 How Many Universes Are There?
September 23, 2019 S2019·E30 Is Pluto a Planet?
September 16, 2019 S2019·E29 Could We Terraform Mars?
September 3, 2019 S2019·E28 Is Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?
August 26, 2019 S2019·E27 How to Become an Astrophysicist + Challenge Question!
August 19, 2019 S2019·E26 What Happened Before the Big Bang?
August 12, 2019 S2019·E25 Exploring a HUGE Radio Telescope in VR 180
August 6, 2019 S2019·E24 What Caused the Big Bang?
July 25, 2019 S2019·E23 Deciphering the Vast Scale of the Universe - STELLAR
July 18, 2019 S2019·E22 Did Time Start at the Big Bang?

…and 201 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.

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