Beyond Planets: The Quest for Exomoons

We've discovered thousands of exoplanets, but what about exomoons? Astronomer David Kipping joins Brian Greene to explore the ongoing search for exomoons—lesser-known, but intriguing potential habitats for life beyond Earth.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participant: David Kipping
Moderator: Brian Greene

00:00 - Introduction
01:53 - Participant Introduction
02:47 - A Brief History Of Exoplanet Discoveries
11:57 - How Do We Establish The Existence Of An Exoplanet?
17:01 - Exomoons And The Possibility Of Extraterrestrial Life
27:56 - Potential Exomoon Candidates
34:07 - Credits

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[mialotusmusic]

Omg two of my favorite scientists together today what a gift!!

[mikmop]

Good luck with Kepler-1625b. I'm a huge fan of David Kipping's "Cool Worlds" YouTube channel. This interview just makes my enthusiasm for his channel that much greater.

[VaBellaBeautz]

Brian please never stop doing World Science Festival, i thoroughly enjoy listening to you and your guests. Best on Youtube :)

[TheAraz]

Probably the best platform on the internet, no joke, this is what I look forward to every week. This is perfectly moderated and balanced.

[mikkel]

Brian Greene and David Kipping, Fabolous Duo.

[Silvia]

Brian Greene is such a nice and friendly person, one of my favorite science communicators 🎉

[chrisjoosten]

I absolutely LOVE the questions Brian asked and how David answered them. These are the basic questions most of us are asking ourselves these days. So so so incredibly grateful for these two amazing people AND the fact that things like the internet and telescopes exist!

[David-dibo]

Hey that's David Kipping from Cool Worlds!

[JohnnyNiteTrain]

Dr Kipping in the house!!! Cool Worlds is one of my fave YouTube channels.

[tcuisix]

I love how Brian Greene is simultaneously really intelligent and still curious to ask great questions

[DanielVerberne]

David Kipping was really on fire and completely engaging in this setting. Love it. In regards to planetary shapes, oblate spheroids FTW!

[leoborganelli]

Wow! This was a fascinating discussion with two brilliant minds! Thank You Brian Green And Dr. Kipping

[dismalthoughts]

OMG, as soon as I saw the title, I was hoping against hope that it would include Dr Briane Greene AND Dr David Kipping. Christmas came early this year 🤩

[Amethyst_Friend]

Thank you! Always a pleasure to listen to Professor Kipping.

[markdrechsler]

This is going to be interesting. I have been subscribed to Cool Worlds for several years. Always interesting, and well presented.

[mikeflannery]

David is a brilliant communicator and should be more mainstream, perhaps the BBC should be using him..

[mattwecrazy]

Love cool worlds! This is the crossover i needed!

[mehridin]

finally Kipping — talented scientific intellect and communicator. common sense and intelligence coupled.

[Onestringpuppet]

A great guest, im a fan of cool worlds too. Im always surprised at how few comments are made on wsf videos though. Enjoyed the video 👍

[SuperPanda]

What a great episode! Brian and David are the best!