March 9, 2026
Are We Missing Alien Signals? Space Weather, Brain Changes and the Mars Life Question
In today's episode, Anna and Avery explore five of the week's most compelling space and astronomy stories: a new SETI Institute study suggesting stellar space weather could be scrambling alien radio signals before they even leave their home systems; groundbreaking research revealing that spaceflight physically shifts and deforms the human brain inside the skull; the impressive engineering story behind Roscosmos restoring Baikonur's launch pad in record time ahead of the Progress MS-33 mission; a surprising new finding from Nature that Earth's elliptical orbit plays a much bigger role in shaping El Niño and global weather patterns than previously thought; and the endlessly fascinating question of whether asteroid impacts could allow microbes to travel between planets — including the possibility that life on Earth may have originated on Mars. Stories Covered • Why SETI may be missing alien radio signals — space weather around distant stars could be smearing narrowband signals beyond the reach of current detectors (SETI Institute, March 2026) • Spaceflight physically shifts and deforms the brain inside the skull — new MRI study of 26 astronauts published in PNAS reveals extent of microgravity's neurological impact (University of Florida, March 2026) • Baikonur's Site 31/6 launch pad fully restored after November 2025 damage — over 150 workers complete repairs in under two months, clearing path for Progress MS-33 on March 22 (NASASpaceFlight, March 2026) • Earth's distance from the Sun found to dramatically alter seasons — new Nature study shows orbital eccentricity drives its own annual cycle in the Pacific cold tongue, influencing El Niño over millennia (UC Berkeley, March 2026) • Did Earth life begin on Mars? New research examines how asteroid impacts could allow microbes to travel between planets via ejected rock (Universe Today, March 2026) Connect With Us Website: astronomydaily.io Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Tumblr: @AstroDailyPod Part of the Bitesz.com Podcast Network
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Welcome to Astronomy Daily.
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I'm Anna and I'm Avery. It's Monday, March ninth, and
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if you've been following the news this past week, the
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universe has been spectacularly busy.
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We've got alien signals going missing in the cosmic static
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astronaut brains getting physically rearranged in space, a dramatic launch
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pad rescue stories straight out of a thriller, and a
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genuinely mind bending discovery about why Earth seasons work the
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way they do.
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LUs we're asking one of astrobiology's most provocative questions, did
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life on Earth actually start on Mars? It's a packed episode,
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let's get into it.
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Here's a thought that's going to sit with you for
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a while. What if we're not alone in the universe,
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but we've been tuning to the wrong frequency this whole time.
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That's essentially what a new study from SETI is suggesting.
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Researchers Vishal Goadjar and Grace Brown have published work showing
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that stellar space weather, the kind of turbulent plasma and
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solar activity that stars constantly turn out, could physically distort
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alien radio signals before they even leave their home solar system.
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So here's how SETI searches typically work. For decades, scientists
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have been scanning the sky for very tightly focused, narrow
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band radio signals, extremely specific frequencies that nothing natural in
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the universe should produce. If you detect one of those,
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the thinking goes, it's almost certainly artificial, it's almost certainly someone.
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And that logic is still sound. But the new research
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highlights a gap in the reasoning. Even if an alien
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civilization sense a perfectly clean narrowband signal, their own stars,
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environment might smear it out before it escapes plasma density,
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Fluctuations in stellar winds or a burst from a coronal
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mass ejection can spread that tight signal across a much
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wider range of frequencies, reducing its strength that any single
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point below what our detectors can pick up.
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The team ran simulations of the billion closest sunlike and
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red dwarf stars and found that seventy percent of stars
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would broaden a signal by more than one hurtz, thirty
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percent by more than ten herts, and if a coronal
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mass ejection happened to fire off at the moment of transmission,
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the broadening could exceed one thousand herts, making the signal
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essentially invisible to the way we currently search and Red.
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Dwarf stars are the biggest culprits here, and that's particularly
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significant because red dwarfs make up about three quarters of
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all the stars in the Milky Way. A lot of
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our SETI attention has focused on those systems precisely because
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they're so common, and it turns out they may also
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be the most likely to garble any messages being sent
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from their planets.
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The good news is that identifying the problem is the
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first step to solving it. The team says this gives
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us a framework for redesigning searches to remain sensitive even
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one signals are broadened to look for what actually arrives
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at Earth rather than what was originally transmitted.
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It's a bit like realizing you've been trying to tune
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into a radio spation, but the signal had passed through
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a foggy atmosphere on its way to you. It's not
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that the station isn't broadcasting, it's that we need a
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better aerial and that's.
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A much more hopeful framing than nobody's out there. The
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universe might be full of voices, we just haven't learned
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to hear yet.
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Now, if you're planning a trip to space, or if
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you're just a big Artemis fan, this next story is
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worth paying attention to, though we want to say upfront
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that it's fascinating rather than alarming.
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A new study published in the Proceedings of the National
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Academy of Sciences has found that spaceflight doesn't just change
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your perspective on life, it literally shifts the physical position
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of your brain inside your skull.
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A team led by Rachel Seidler at the University of
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Florida analyzed MRI scans from twenty six astronauts taken before
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and after missions to the ISS missions ranging from a
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few weeks to over a year, to measure the brain's
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actual movement. They aligned each person's skull across the two
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scans so they could track the brain's position relative to
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the bone itself.
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And what they found was striking. The brain shifts upward
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and backward inside the skull. It also physically deforms, stretching
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and compressing in different directions. The sensory and motor regions
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show the largest shifts, and crucially, the longer someone spent
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in space, the more pronounced these changes were.
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The underlying cause is what you'd expect from microgravity on Earth.
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Gravity constantly pulls fluids, including the cerebral spinal fluid surrounding
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your brain, downward. In space, that force disappears fluid redistributes
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towards the head. The brain effectively floats in the skull,
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and it responds to different forces from surrounding tissues.
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Previous research already knew the brain shifts upward in space.
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What makes this study important is the level of detail.
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Instead of treating the brain as one object, the team
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divided it into more than one hundred regions and tracked
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each individually. That revealed patterns like opposing lateral shifts on
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each side of the brain that had been canceling each
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other out and going unnoticed in whole brain averages.
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The reassuring news most of the changes recover within six
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months of returning to Earth, and the astronauts themselves didn't
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report symptoms like headaches or cognitive fog. The researcher stressed
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that this doesn't mean people shouldn't go to space, but
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as missions get longer and as Artemis starts taking humans
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back to the Moon and eventually towards Mars, understanding these
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effects will be important for designing proper countermeasures.
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It's a reminder that space is a genuinely alien environment
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for the human body. We evolved under one gravity, and
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every time we leave it, we're running an experiment on ourselves.
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The more we understand those experiments, the safer we can
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make long duration spaceflight.
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Now for a story that is, in the best possible way,
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a bit of a thriller. In November last year, something
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went wrong at the historic bikan Or Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,
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and nobody was entirely sure it could be fixed in time.
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It started. On November twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, a
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Soyuz rocket lifted off from launch Site thirty one, carrying
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the Soyuz MS twenty eight spacecraft, with two Rose Cosmos
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cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams aboard. The launch was successful.
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The crew docked with the ISS without incident.
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But post launch inspection footage revealed significant damage to the
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pad itself. A component called the service cabin, which retracts
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into a protective cavity to shield it from engine exhausting ascent,
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hadn't been properly secured. The powerful rocket exhaust dislodged it
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and the structure fell several meters into the launch trench,
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deforming bridges, access walkways and other critical infrastructure.
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The space community was skeptical this could be fixed quickly.
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These are heavy, complex structures, but Rose Cosmos committed to
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the repair, and it turns out their long history with
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the soyuse system gave them an unexpected advantage. Bear service
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cabins had been sitting in storage leftover from refurbishment plans
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dating back to the nineteen seventies.
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The restoration effort was enormous. Over one hundred and fifty
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personnel worked on the project. They completed over two hundred
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and fifty meters of welding, painted nearly twenty four hundred
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square meters of structures, replaced all fastening units, and fully
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updated the electrical systems. The replacement cabin, originally built for
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an older SOYZ variant, needed modifications to work with modern hardware.
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And in under two months from the initial damage assessment,
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far faster than most observers anticipated, Rose Cosmos announced the
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pad was fully restored and declared ready for operations.
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That means progress MS thirty three and uncrewed cargo ship
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is now cleared to launch from Site thirty one on
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March twenty second. It will deliver around two point five
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tons of supplies to the ISA propellants, water, food, scientific equipment,
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and crew parcels.
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It's a genuinely impressive piece of engineering under pressure, and
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it's a good reminder that behind every rocket launch is
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an enormous amount of groundwork literally in this case, that
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never makes headlines until something goes sideways.
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Okay, pop quiz. Why do we have seasons?
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Earth's axial tilt. We all learned this in school. When
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the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, it's summer
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up here. When it's tilted away, it's winter.
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Exactly right. And most people also know that Earth's orbit
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around the Sun is slightly elliptical. We're a bit closer
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to the Sun in January and a bit farther away
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in July. But we're usually told that effect is minor
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and it doesn't significantly change our seasons. Well, a new
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study published in Nature suggests we may have been under
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selling that distance effect quite significantly.
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The research, led by John Chiang at UC Berkeley, focuses
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on a specific feature of the Pacific Ocean called the
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cold Tongue, a strip of cooler water that stretches westward
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from South America along the equator. This cold tongue is
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closely tied to Almino and La a Ninia cycles, which
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influence rainfall, drought, and weather patterns across huge swaths of
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the planet.
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What Chang and his colleagues found is that the changing
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Earth sun distance creates its own separate annual cycle in
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the cold tongue, distinct from the tilt driven one, and
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the two cycles are slightly out of sync. The distance
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based one runs about twenty five minutes longer than the
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tilt based one. That doesn't sound like much, but it
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means that over about eleven thousand years, the two effects
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drift from being perfectly in phase to perfectly out of phase.
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When they're in phase like they are roughly today, the
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effects reinforce each other. When they're out of phase, as
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they were around six thousand years ago, they partially cancel,
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producing a much weaker seasonal cycle in the cold tongue.
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And since the cold tongue drives el Nino, that means
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el Nino patterns themselves would have been dramatically different in
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the deep past.
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The mechanism works in a counterintuitive direction too. While axial
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tilt creates north south temperature differences, the distance effect creates
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an east west contrast between the continental hemisphere of the
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America's Africa and Eurasia and the ocean dominated Pacific side.
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That contrast drives trade winds, which in turn shape the
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cold tongue.
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It's worth noting the study is entirely model based. It's
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a prediction that will need observational verification, but it opens
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fascinating questions for paleoclimate science. If Earth's orbital shape was
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changing the cold tongue over twenty two thousand year cycles,
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some ancient climate records may need reinterpretation.
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And there's something wonderfully humbling about it. We've been telling
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school children for generations exactly why seasons have happen, and
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it turns out the full picture involves a subtle cosmic
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clockwork we hadn't fully accounted for.
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And now for our final story today and honestly, one
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of the most mind bending things you can contemplate on
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a Monday, what if you're not from Earth?
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In a very literal biological sense.
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Possibly a new study is revisiting the concept of panspermia,
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the idea that life doesn't necessarily originate independently on each planet,
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but can travel between worlds and the vehicle asteroid impacts.
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Here's the premis. We know that when a large asteroid
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or comet slams into a planet within a force, it
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can blast material into space, rocks, dust, and potentially anything
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living inside those rocks. We've actually found meteorites on Earth
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that originated on Mars, blasted off by ancient impacts, so
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the physical pathway definitely exists.
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The question has always been could anything survive that journey?
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You're talking about the ejection itself, an enormous shockwave, then
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exposure to the vacuum and radiation of space for potentially
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millions of years, then a fiery atmospheric entry and high
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speed impact at the destination.
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The new research suggests the answer might be yes. Under
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the right conditions, some microbes, particularly those that form hardy
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spores or live deep within rocks, could potentially survive all
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of those stages. The rock itself provides shielding from radiation
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during transit, and the numbers game matters. Even if only
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a tiny fraction of ejected material survives, the sheer volume
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of material blasted around the early Solar system means some
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viable biology could have made the crossing.
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The Mars connection is particularly intriguing. Early Mars was, by
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many accounts a better candidate for life to emerge first
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than early Earth. It cooled faster, it had liquid water earlier,
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and it had a gentler gravitational well, making it easier
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for material to escape. If life arose on Mars billions
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of years ago and hitched a ride on an impact
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ejected rock, Earth could effectively have been seated.
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Which would mean that if we ever find microbial life
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on Mars or evidence of ancient life there, we'd face
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a fascinating interpretive challenge. Did life arise independently on both
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worlds or are we all in some deep ancestral sense Martians.
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The study emphasizes this is still highly speculative, hence bermia
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remains a hypothesis rather than established science, But as our
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ability to study Martian samples improves, especially with future sample
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return missions, we may eventually be in a position to
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test it directly.
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Either way, the question is deeply fascinating, and it gives
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a whole new flavor to the phrase out of this world.
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That's Astronomy Daily from Monday, March ninth. From scrambled alien
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signals to astronaut brains, from a launchpad resurrection, to the
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hidden clockwork of Earth seasons and the possibility that we're
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