Episodes

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 142 *NASA’s Perseverance rover to start setting up the Martian sample depot NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has started work to set up a Mars sample return depot on the red planet – the first to be established on another...

*Vega C explodes in mid flight The European Space Agency has suspended all Vega flights and established an independent board of inquiry following the failure of a Vega C rocket during its ascent to orbit. *A violent leak threatens the space worthiness...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 140 *NASA’s Insight lander goes silent NASA’s Mars Insight lander has failed to respond to calls from mission managers back on Earth and may have gone silent after running out of power. *Biggest Marsquake ever recorded...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 139 *Mars helicopter sets new altitude record NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter has set a new altitude record on its 35th flight on the red planet. *Dark matter could be made up of dark photons A team of scientists have...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 138 *First-ever sound recording of dust devils on Mars Astronomers get the first ever sound recording of a dust devil twisting its way across the surface of Mars. *What the first galaxies were, and weren't, like Researchers...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 137 *The mysterious meteor that changes everything Astronomers believe that a meteor which streaked across the darkened skies of central Alberta didn’t originate in the inner solar system but from the far reaches of the...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 136 *What Earth’s volcanic history can tell us about Venus A new study claims volcanic activity lasting hundreds to thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus from a warm...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 135*Astronomers identify a paradigm-changing cosmic explosionOur standard Astronomy text books will need to be re-written after scientists discovered a distant blast unlike anything ever seen before.*Saturn’s rings...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 134*A giant mantle plume identified on MarsA new study suggests the Martian core could still be at least partially molten liquid. The findings reported in the journal Nature Astronomy are based on the detection of what...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 133*The mysteriously bright flash pointing straight at EarthEarlier this year, astronomers detected an extraordinary bright flash in a part of the sky half way across the universe where no such light had ever been...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 132*Martian dust storms generate Earth like cloudsESA's Mars Express has revealed that Mars churns up surprisingly Earth-like cloud patterns that are reminiscent of those in our planet's tropical regions.*Solar storm...

*Artemis 1 on its way homeNASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is on its way home after completing its distant retrograde lunar orbit around the Moon.*More possible organic compounds found in Mars crater rocksScientists are reporting the detection...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 130*Are the Sun’s solar cycles getting weakerNew computer modelling suggests the Sun’s 11 year solar cycle is getting weaker, and scientists aren’t sure how that will affect the Earth.*New NASA climate change mission...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 129*Are we seeing the first light in the universeThe Webb Space Telescope is now unveiling what could be light from the very first stars in the universe – revealing a very rich cosmos where the first forming galaxies...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 128*Orion’s historic journey around the MoonNASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has arrived safely in lunar orbit and has now well into its distant retrograde orbit which is taking the mission some 92,195 kilometres...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 127*How black holes control star formationNew observations using NASA’s Webb Space Telescope are showing astronomers how black holes control star formation in galaxies.*Euclid completes thermal vacuum testingThe...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 126*Hubble captures three faces of an evolving supernovaNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has images three different moments at once in a far-off supernova explosion that happened 11 billion years ago.*New study claims...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 125*Lift off NASA’s Artemis-1 Mega Rocket Launches Orion to MoonThe world’s most powerful rocket NASA’s Space Launch System has successfully blasted into orbit on its maiden flight. The spectacular nighttime launch from...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 124*Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known starAstronomers have taken their best image yet of the most massive known star in the universe.*The Martian crust is more complex and evolved than previously...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 123*Data suggests Magnetars have solid surfacesA signature in the X-ray light emitted by a highly magnetised neutron star known as a magnetar suggests the star has a solid surface with no atmosphere.*SpaceX could try...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 122*Mysterious cosmic radiation storms targeting the EarthMystery continues to surround a series of strange cosmic radiation storms which have been battering...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 121*NASA to continue with the Psyche mission despite software issuesNASA has decided to go forward with its Psyche mission with a new launch window opening on October 10, 2023.*Searching for the Milky Way galaxy’s...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 120*Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight yearsAstronomers have detected three near Earth asteroids hiding in the glare of the Sun including a one and a half kilometre wide monster which could one day...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 119*Giant asteroid discovered just a day before it flew past the EarthAstronomers discovered a huge asteroid as big as a sky scraper just a day before it...