Astronomy News Episodes

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 116*NASA’s Dragonfly mission to the distant world of TitanNASA have undertaken a major survey of the Saturnian moon Titan’s Selk crater region which will be...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 114*Over 30 thousand near Earth Asteroids now discoveredAstronomers have reached a major milestone with the discovery of the thirty thousandth near Earth asteroid.*NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past the EarthNASA’s...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 111*Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of a black holeAstronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of one of the universe’s most infamous monsters – a black...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 108*Stunning new images of the Jovian ice moon EuropaNASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed its close flyby of the Jovian ice moon Europa capturing stunning close-up images which are raising more questions than they...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 107*Dimorphous grows a massive comet like impact debris tail The DART spacecraft’s impact into the asteroid Dimorphous has generated a massive comet like tail...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 103*New and puzzling features of mysterious fast radio burstsAstronomers have detected strange never before seen signals originating from an already mysterious object called a Fast Radio Burst.*NASA's InSight hears...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 100*Counting down to asteroid collisionNASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test— or DART mission -- remains on target to crash into a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid on Monday.*Continental plate movements...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 97*Solar Orbiter hit by a massive Coronal Mass EjectionEarlier this month as The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter undertook its third flyby of the planet Venus it was hit by a massive coronal mass ejection...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 96*Four-billion-year-old planetary crust found under Western AustraliaScientists have identified a four-billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust the size of...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 95*DART on track for asteroid impactLater this month NASA’s Dart mission will slam into a tiny near-Earth asteroid orbiting a slightly larger Near-Earth...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 94*The Perseverance rover finds the sands of Mars are green as well as redThe accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. But NASA’s Perseverance rover has found lots of olivine.*New...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 93*Europe’s EnVision spacecraft to surf Venus’s atmosphereThe European Space Agency’s EnVision mission to Venus being developed to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies of Earth’s so called...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 91*Was there a second dinosaur killing asteroid impactScientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in the North Atlantic Ocean which may have...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 90*The red supergiant Betelgeuse blows it topAstronomers say the sudden dimming of the semi-regular variable red supergiant star Betelgeuse back in 2019 and...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 89*The ongoing search for Dark MatterScientists have placed new limits on where the mysterious invisible substance known as dark matter could be hiding....

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 88*New record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seenAstronomers have just set another new record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 83*Three new particles discovered at CERNThe international LHCb collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has discovered three never-before-seen subatomic particles.*The new telescope to test competing theories of...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 82*A launch date set for NASA’s Artemis-1 mission to the MoonNASA is looking at August 29 as the potential launch date for the maiden flight of the massive SLS Moon rocket on Artemis-1.*Warnings about the DART...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 80*NASA’s Curiosity rover goes into emergency safe mode on MarsNASA’s Mars Curiosity rover have suddenly gone into emergency safe mode on the red planet following unusual temperature spikes were detected by a key...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 25 Episode 79*James Webb reveals its spectacular first imagesThe first images from the new James Webb Space Telescope have stunned the world with their...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 70*Monster black hole discoveryAstronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that’s consuming as much mass as the planet Earth every second....

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 69*Detecting invisible monsters floating unseen in spaceAstronomers may have discovered the first free-floating black hole in the Milky Way galaxy – an invisible monster devouring anything that gets too close.*NASA...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 67*Evidence that Earth’s inner core oscillatesScientists have discovered that the Earth’s inner core oscillates, contradicting previously accepted models that...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 59*The Sun as you've never seen it beforePowerful flares, breathtaking views across the solar poles, and a curious solar "hedgehog" are among the treasure-trove of spectacular images and data returned by the European...