Astronomy News Episodes
Nov. 2, 2022
A Major Blow in the Search for Life on Other Worlds
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 117
*A major blow in the search for life on other worlds
Planetary scientists have suffered a significant setback in their search for exoplanets with life – discovering an Earth like planet with…
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 cra…
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 swo…
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 infam…
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 mor…
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 generate…
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…
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.
*Cont…
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 co…
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 th…
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 slight…
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 …
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…
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 Atlan…
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 Bet…