Paul Dalba
Audio host and narrator for Morningstar Missions to Venus.
About
Paul Dalba is an exoplanet astronomer who earned his PhD in Astronomy from Boston University in 2018 after a BA in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley. He held an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Riverside and a Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellowship at UC Santa Cruz, with a concurrent appointment at the SETI Institute. He led the Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass Survey (GOT 'EM) at Keck and Lick Observatories and co-discovered TOI-2180 b. He serves as the audio host and narrator for the Morningstar Missions to Venus podcast.
Affiliations
- Communicator at Morning Star Missions to Venus
- Communicator at Project Starshade
- Communicator at Limits of Habitability
Episodes & articles
S3E1: Molecules That Shouldn't SurvivePodcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Jan 10, 2026
S2E3: The Ammonia Connection and Mode 3Podcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Dec 20, 2025
S2E2: Whispers from the ArchiveIn 1978, a small metal probe plunged through the clouds of Venus and spent just under an hour measuring its atmosphere before going silent forever.Podcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Dec 13, 2025
S2E1: The Phosphine BombshellPodcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Dec 6, 2025
S1E5: The Acid ChallengePodcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Nov 29, 2025
S1E4: Earth's Aerial BiospherePodcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Nov 22, 2025
S1E3: Goldilocks Zone in the SkyPodcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Nov 15, 2025
S1E2: Paradise LostVenus today is a world of crushing heat and acid clouds, but the evidence written in its own atmosphere suggests it wasn't always that way.Podcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Nov 8, 2025
S1E1: Beautiful DeceiverPodcast · Morning Star Missions to Venus · Nov 1, 2025
