Astronomy News Episodes
Oct. 31, 2022
NASA’s Dragonfly Mission to the Distant World of Titan
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 116
*NASA’s Dragonfly mission to the distant world of Titan
NASA have undertaken a major survey of the Saturnian moon Titan’s Selk crater region which will be...
Oct. 26, 2022
Over 30 Thousand Near Earth Asteroids Now Discovered
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 114
*Over 30 thousand near Earth Asteroids now discovered
Astronomers have reached a major milestone with the discovery of the thirty thousandth near Earth asteroid.
*NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past the Earth
NASA’s...
Oct. 19, 2022
Best View Yet of the Birth of a Black Hole
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 111
*Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of a black hole
Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of one of the universe’s most infamous monsters – a black...
Oct. 12, 2022
Stunning New Images of the Jovian Ice Moon Europa
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 108
*Stunning new images of the Jovian ice moon Europa
NASA’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...
Oct. 10, 2022
Dimorphous Grows a Massive Comet Like Impact Debris Tail
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...
Sept. 30, 2022
New and Puzzling Features of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 103
*New and puzzling features of mysterious fast radio bursts
Astronomers have detected strange never before seen signals originating from an already mysterious object called a Fast Radio Burst.
*NASA's InSight hears...
Sept. 23, 2022
Counting Down to Asteroid Collision
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 100
*Counting down to asteroid collision
NASA’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...
Sept. 16, 2022
Solar Orbiter Hit by a Massive Coronal Mass Ejection
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 97
*Solar Orbiter hit by a massive Coronal Mass Ejection
Earlier 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...
Sept. 14, 2022
Four-Billion-Year-Old Planetary Crust Found Under Western Australia
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 96
*Four-billion-year-old planetary crust found under Western Australia
Scientists have identified a four-billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust the size of...
Sept. 12, 2022
DART on Track for Asteroid Impact
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 95
*DART on track for asteroid impact
Later this month NASA’s Dart mission will slam into a tiny near-Earth asteroid orbiting a slightly larger Near-Earth...
Sept. 9, 2022
The Sands of Mars are Green as well as Red
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 94
*The Perseverance rover finds the sands of Mars are green as well as red
The 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...
Sept. 7, 2022
Surfing Venus’s Atmosphere
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 93
*Europe’s EnVision spacecraft to surf Venus’s atmosphere
The European Space Agency’s EnVision mission to Venus being developed to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies of Earth’s so called...
Aug. 31, 2022
Was There a Second Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Impact?
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 91
*Was there a second dinosaur killing asteroid impact
Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in the North Atlantic Ocean which may have...
Aug. 26, 2022
The Red Supergiant Betelgeuse Blows Its Top
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 90
*The red supergiant Betelgeuse blows it top
Astronomers say the sudden dimming of the semi-regular variable red supergiant star Betelgeuse back in 2019 and...
Aug. 17, 2022
The Ongoing Search for Dark Matter
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 89
*The ongoing search for Dark Matter
Scientists have placed new limits on where the mysterious invisible substance known as dark matter could be hiding....
Aug. 10, 2022
New Record for the Most Distant and Earliest Galaxy Ever Seen
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 88
*New record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen
Astronomers have just set another new record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen...
July 27, 2022
Three New Particles Discovered at CERN
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 83
*Three new particles discovered at CERN
The 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...
July 25, 2022
Launch Date Set for NASA’s Artemis-1 Mission to the Moon
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 82
*A launch date set for NASA’s Artemis-1 mission to the Moon
NASA 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...
July 20, 2022
NASA’s Curiosity Rover goes into Emergency Safe Mode on Mars
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 80
*NASA’s Curiosity rover goes into emergency safe mode on Mars
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover have suddenly gone into emergency safe mode on the red planet following unusual temperature spikes were detected by a key...
July 18, 2022
James Webb Reveals its Spectacular First Images
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 25 Episode 79
*James Webb reveals its spectacular first images
The first images from the new James Webb Space Telescope have stunned the world with their...
June 27, 2022
Monster Black Hole Discovery
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 70
*Monster black hole discovery
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that’s consuming as much mass as the planet Earth every second....
June 24, 2022
Detecting Invisible Monsters Floating Unseen In Space
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 69
*Detecting invisible monsters floating unseen in space
Astronomers may have discovered the first free-floating black hole in the Milky Way galaxy – an invisible monster devouring anything that gets too close.
*NASA...
June 20, 2022
Evidence That Earth’s Inner Core Oscillates
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 67
*Evidence that Earth’s inner core oscillates
Scientists have discovered that the Earth’s inner core oscillates, contradicting previously accepted models that...
June 1, 2022
The Sun As You've Never Seen It Before
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 59
*The Sun as you've never seen it before
Powerful 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...