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The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

Japan has successfully deployed two lander rovers onto the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.

Astronomers have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight.

A new study has found that some of the oldest rocks on the planet are the result of asteroids slamming into the primordial Earth causing its crust to melt.

It’s been revealed that the hole found in the hull of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which allowed atmosphere from the International Space Station to vent into space was made by a drill.

Halogens released during the Siberian Traps eruption may have been one of the driving forces behind the world’s greatest mass extinction event.

Mission managers say cabin pressure is holding steady following repairs after atmosphere began venting into space from a leak aboard the International Space Station.

A new study suggests that Earth’s geomagnetic field polarity reversals could occur overs the space of just two centuries – much faster than previously thought.

Scientists have directly observed water on the lunar surface for the first time.

A new study claims the strange auroral streams collectively dubbed STEVE are not auroral after all -- but an entirely new celestial phenomenon.

A new study looking at material around distant stars suggests Earth’s ingredients are fairly typical.

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.

Astronomers have shed new light on how solar systems are formed.

Scientists have discovered that the Andromeda galaxy M31 shredded and cannibalized a galaxy similar to the Milky way about two billion years ago.

A huge subsurface liquid water lake has been detected near the Martian south pole.

Astronomers trying to work out how fast the universe is expanding - still can’t agree on a key figure in the standard model of cosmology – known as the Hubble Constant.

A new study suggests the Sun's rotational cycle influences lightning activity on Earth.

As NASA’s Juno spacecraft undertook its 13th close flyby of the gas giant Jupiter on Monday – earlier data appears to have turned up a new heat source close to the south pole of Io

A new study has identified a distant supermassive black hole called a blazar as the source of mysterious high energy cosmic ray neutrinos bombarding the Earth.