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"I'm never going to go to Mars but I've helped inspire ... the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars," Bradbury told Terry Gross in 1988. The science-fiction writer died Tuesday at the age of 91.

On this week's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we talk about all different kinds of aliens — how they differ, how dangerous they are, and what we're really talking about when we talk about them. We also bring up some examples of things we like outside our usual realms, and what's making us happy.

Sounding something like a first grader, far-right politician Ilias Kasidiaris argues that since he didn't start it, he shouldn't be arrested for a fracas that's gone viral.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, the comedian mechanics who host NPR's Car Talk, are retiring this fall. Their weekly call-in series will continue to be distributed by NPR, drawing on material from their 25 years of show archives.

The sunny pop song has overtaken the airwaves. Now, in a celebration of summer, NPR shares its take.

Last year, the National Reconnaissance Office gave NASA a gift--two declassified spy telescopes, each higher in quality than anything NASA has ever produced for space. NASA astrophysics director Paul Hertz and Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discuss how the telescopes could be used to hunt for elusive dark matter and dark energy.

Leave a message for the Car Talkguys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, who announced this morning that they will no longer record new programs, beginning this fall.

The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning look at self-delusion, debuts at No. 6.

Sunday night, we'll be watching — both on our couches and from New York — and liveblogging the Tonys, which are often the most enjoyable awards of the year.

Prosecutors called her harboring of the mob boss "the most extreme" case they've seen. They allege she helped build secret walls and keep Whitey Bulger's temper in check.