Episodes

April 5, 2019

Rivers Raged on Mars Late Into its History

A new study has found that significant quantities of water was still flowing down Martian rivers much later than expected.
April 3, 2019

Discovery of Galaxies Without Dark Matter

Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark matter.
March 29, 2019

Could Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts be Magnetars?

Astronomers have discovered a highly magnetic neutron star called a magnetar which appears to have a lot of the characteristics of mysterious high energy pulses known as Fast Radio Bursts.
March 27, 2019

Giant Asteroid Impact Crater

Scientists have discovered a giant 12 to 16-kilometre wide asteroid impact crater in Western Australia.
March 22, 2019

83 Super-massive Black Holes Discovered in the Early Universe

Astronomers have discovered 83 monstrous black holes feeding in the early universe.
March 21, 2019

Milky Way Warped and Twisted

The first accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way shows that the galaxy is warped and twisted.
March 15, 2019

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

The Hollywood notion of Bruce Willis rocketing into space to blow up a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth is unlikely to ever reach fruition...
March 14, 2019

Mission Accomplished

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon 2 capsule has splashed down safely in the North Atlantic Ocean...
March 8, 2019

Crew Dragon2 Docks with Space Station

SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon 2 capsule has successfully docked with the international space station completing the first part of its historic demonstration one test flight.
March 7, 2019

Crew Dragon2 Launches Successfully

NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched the Crew Dragon 2 capsule on its historic first demonstration flight test flight...
March 1, 2019

The Geocorona

Scientists have discovered that a tenuous gaseous unseen outermost region of Earth’s atmosphere called the geocorona extends ...
Feb. 27, 2019

Touchdown!

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has briefly touched down on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples...
Feb. 22, 2019

Asteroid Impacts On Earth Have Been Increasing

The Earth has seen an increase in asteroid impacts over the past 290 million years.
Feb. 20, 2019

Goodbye Farewell and Amen

Goodbye farewell and amen as mission end declared for the Opportunity rover...
Feb. 15, 2019

A New Fundamental Constant of the Sun

Astronomers have discovered that magnetic waves in the Sun's corona - its outermost layer of the atmosphere - react to sound waves escaping from the inside of the Sun
Feb. 13, 2019

New Date

A new date for the Milky Way’s collision with the Andromeda galaxy
Feb. 8, 2019

New Twists In The Expansion Of the Universe

Astronomers have uncovered what appears to be a glitch in the early expansion of the universe – beyond that predicted by the standard model of cosmology.
Feb. 7, 2019

New Insights Into Exploding Stars

Astronomers have experienced the most detailed observations ever undertaken of the first moments of the death of a star as a thermonuclear supernova.
Feb. 1, 2019

The First Supermassive Black Holes

A new study suggests that the very early universe – just after the big bang 13.82 billion years ago – may have seen conditions in which normal star formation was overtaken by the birth of monstrous black holes instead.
Jan. 31, 2019

Some of Earth’s Oldest Rocks Found on the Moon

Some of the oldest rocks on Earth have been discovered among lunar rock samples brought back to Earth from the Moon.
Jan. 25, 2019

08: Are Fast Radio Bursts Generated by Flaring Magnetars?

Scientists have developed a new hypothesis to try and explain mysterious cosmic energy blasts know as Fast Radio Bursts.
Jan. 24, 2019

07: Strange New Phenomenon Cowers Astronomers

The world’s premier astronomy and space science podcast.
Jan. 18, 2019

06: Brightest Quasar In the Early Universe

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Jan. 16, 2019

05: A Second Repeating Fast Radio Burst Detected

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