The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 15 *NASA gives up on the Mars Mole NASA has finally given up on efforts to get its Mars mole working. An exoplanetary system with real rhythm *Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system containing six exoplanets locked in orbits that act more like a rhythmic gravitational dance. *SpaceX sets a new launch record SpaceX has set a new record launching 143 satellites on a single rocket. *Fe...
Feb 12, 2021•52 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 14 *Exploring the depths of Titan's largest sea A new study has found that Kraken Mare -- the largest sea on the Saturnian Moon Titan – is at least 300 metres deep. *A new idea about the birth of the Solar System A new study proposes that the solar system was formed through a two step process – but not quite the way the Nice model and Grand Tack hypothesis suggest. *The first Atlantic splashdow...
Feb 10, 2021•35 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 13 *Strange new clues about how stars are made Astronomers may have discovered some strange new clues about the processes involved in creating a star. *Understanding the secrets of neutron stars Scientists have found evidence of alpha particles at the surface of neutron-rich heavy nuclei – a discovery which could provide new insights into the structure of neutron stars, as well as the process o...
Feb 08, 2021•46 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 12 *The Earth is spinning faster. The Earth is spinning faster than it used to – in fact the planet’s fastest 28 days – based on records going back to 1960 have all occurred in the year 2020. *Hubble pinpoints supernova blast Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have determined the epicentre of a supernova explosion that lit up the skies 1700 years ago. *Blue Origin undertakes another s...
Jan 29, 2021•38 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 11 *How the asteroid Ryugu lost its water. As scientists continue to sift through the treasure-trove of rocks grains and dust brought back to Earth last month by the Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu – other researchers as going through the petabytes of remote sensing data collected during the mission to reveal new details about the asteroid's past. *SLS Moon rocket Core Stage engine fail...
Jan 27, 2021•39 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 10 *The most complete map of nearby brown dwarfs ever compiled. Astronomers have compiled the most complete three-dimensional map of brown dwarfs in our stellar neighbourhood. *Dark Energy survey releases its final data set The Dark Energy Survey has released its second and final data set containing nearly 700 million astronomical objects. *Gilmour Space conducts a successful rocket engine test...
Jan 25, 2021•39 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 9 *New origins for sunquakes A new study has discovered that sunquakes originate from beneath the surface of the Sun – not above it as previously thought. *Oumuamua is not a hydrogen iceberg The idea that the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua could be a giant frozen hydrogen iceberg has been dashed following new research. *ESA's Kiruna 30 years on ESA's Kiruna ground station in northern Sweden is ...
Jan 22, 2021•37 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 8 *The most detailed views ever of the surface of a brown dwarf Astronomers have discovered bands and stripes in the atmosphere of Luhman 16 B -- the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. *More delays to the Ariane 6 space program The European Space agency has pushed back the maiden flight of its new Ariane 6 heavy lift launch vehicle to the second quarter of next year. *China preparing for something w...
Jan 20, 2021•28 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 7 *The strange star produced by a white dwarf collision Astronomers have discovered a strange stellar object produced by the collision of a pair of white dwarfs – the corpses of dead Sun like stars. *The youngest magnetar ever seen Astronomers have discovered a new Magnetar – the youngest ever seen. *NAVY UFO Update Former US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims Washington is covering up im...
Jan 18, 2021•37 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 6 *What's new for 2021 2021 will be another exciting year in space with the maiden flights of at least three new spacecraft and NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover getting ready to land in the red planet’s Jezero Crater, on February 18 *Virgin Galactic mission abort Virgin Galactic forced to cut short a planned test flight of their Space Ship Two prototype in the skies above New Mexico followin...
Jan 15, 2021•27 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 5 *How the solar wind has stripped away the Martian atmosphere Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. *Giant X-ray bubbles detected in galactic halo Astronomers have discovered giant X-ray bubbles extending some thousands of light years above and below ...
Jan 13, 2021•27 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 4 *The atmosphere of a white dwarf shows Earth’s ultimate fate Astronomers studying the atmosphere of a nearby stellar corpse called a white dwarf -- have been given a glimpse of the ultimate fate of planet Earth. *New questions about the origins of heavy elements New questions are being raised about how the universe’s heavy elements are made. *Astronomers more than double the number of known ...
Jan 11, 2021•36 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 3 *Strange signal detected from Proxima Centauri Scientists at SETI the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence are trying to understand a strange signal which was detected by the Parkes Radio Telescope originating in the Proxima Centauri star system. *Israel’s ambitious new plans for a moon mission The Israeli non-profit initiative SpaceIL has announced plans for another attempt to land a sp...
Jan 08, 2021•44 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 2 *Breakthrough in measuring the strong nuclear force Scientists have made the first high precision measurements of the forces acting between protons and exotic subatomic particles called hyperons which contain strange quarks. *Mystery surrounds a dark storm on Neptune Astronomers are trying to understand the mysterious behaviour of a dark storm on Neptune which suddenly changed direction and m...
Jan 06, 2021•28 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 1 *Most distant galaxy ever seen Astronomers have set a new record for observing the most distant galaxy ever seen. *Origin of Moon’s magnetic crust A new study has supported the idea that the Moon’s remnant crustal magnetism was caused by an ancient molten iron lunar core generating a geomagnetic dynamo similar to that which still operates on Earth. *Rocket Lab successfully recovers booster fo...
Jan 04, 2021•35 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 139 *New solar cycle could be one of the strongest on record In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research are predicting that the new solar cycle 25 could be one of the strongest since record-keeping began. *Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile and Argentina into darkness Thousands across southern Chile and Argentina ...
Dec 25, 2020•36 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 138 *Can Modified Newtonian Physics fix Dark Matter What if Scientists have got dark matter all wrong? *NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery Twenty-five years ago, NASA sent its Galileo spacecraft into the atmosphere of the solar system’s largest planet Jupiter. But the information returned during its suicidal descent wasn’t what was expected. *Sentinel 6 provides its ...
Dec 23, 2020•35 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 137 *Astronomers witness a nearby star being eaten by a black hole Astronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole a million times the mass of the Sun. *Scientists begin to study the asteroid samples from Ryugu Scientists say the samples of asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth aboard the Hayabusa 2 mission look like black sooty sand....
Dec 21, 2020•31 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 136 *A Total Solar Eclipse Over South America The good citizenry of Chile and Argentina have experienced a total solar eclipse. *The space station gets a new air lock A new Air lock has arrived aboard the International Space Station. The equipment was flown up on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the latest resupply mission to the orbiting outpost. *Golden Wattles fly into orbit The latest Dragon c...
Dec 18, 2020•39 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 135 *New evidence of how dark matter behaves Astronomers have discovered new characteristics about mysterious dark matter after watching a galaxy being eaten by another bigger galaxy. *New discoveries about how planetary nebulae are made Astronomers have discovered that the mesmerising spiral structures seen in planetary nebulae are generated by companion stars or planets orbiting around the dy...
Dec 16, 2020•24 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 134 *Hayabusa2 lands at Woomera The first pristine subsurface samples of an asteroid have been safely returned to Earth with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 re-entry capsule parachuting down onto the Woomera Rocket range in outback South Australia. *Hints of new physics in polarized light from the big bang Scientists have glimpsed hints of new physics in Planck data from the ...
Dec 14, 2020•36 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 133 *The star-making enough dust to build an Earth-sized planet every year Astronomers have discovered a Wolf-Rayet star system producing enough material to make a planet the size of Earth every year. *The threat of Apophis refuses to go away A new threat to the Earth is being posed by the asteroid Apophis. *Fears it could take a year to fix a problem aboard the Orion capsule Engineers with NAS...
Dec 11, 2020•34 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 132 *Discovery of a likely source for the famous Wow signal A new study may have finally narrowed down the likely source of the famous wow signal. *A Bose-Einstein Condensate created in Earth orbit NASA says its Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station is opening new windows on some of the fundamental physics of Quantum Mechanics. *Assembly begins on NASA’s first SLS rocket NASA has...
Dec 09, 2020•26 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 131 *Planet Earth closer to the supermassive black hole than previously thought A new study claims the Earth is some two thousand light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy than previously thought. *Ancient megafloods on Mars A new study suggests gigantic megafloods may have once covered the red planet’s surface -- even changing its climate. *Arecibo...
Dec 07, 2020•26 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 130 *The Large Magellanic Cloud’s violent encounter with the Milky Way A new study has found that a neighbouring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud is twisting and deforming the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy. *Washington launches a new top secret spy satellite The United launch Alliance has successfully launched an Atlas V rocket carrying the highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office...
Dec 04, 2020•33 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 129 *Fossil galaxy hidden in the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a fossil galaxy hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way galaxy. *New study claims Venus hasn’t lost its water to space A new study suggests that despite being the hottest planet in the solar system Venus has lost little of its original water content to space over the past four billion years. *New Copernicus satellite to mo...
Dec 02, 2020•24 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 128 *A new look at the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy Some hypotheses on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behaviour of some of its oldest stars. *Earth mini moon CD3 is a natural body and not space junk Astronomers using data collected with the 4.3 metre Lowell Discovery Telescope have helped to characterize only the second known mini-moon of E...
Nov 30, 2020•30 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 127 *New mission to study the rock comet Phaethon Germany and Japan are developing a new mission to study the strange asteroid 3200 Phaethon. *Europa’s water plumes could originate in its crust A new study suggests water plumes erupting from Jupiter's ice moon Europa might originate in the frozen crust itself – rather than being forced up from the underlying sub surface ocean. *The great Arecib...
Nov 27, 2020•37 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 126 *Measuring the rotation of the Milky Way’s central black hole Astronomers have for the first time measured the rotational spin of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. *The Jovian ice moon Europa glows in the dark Scientists have discovered that the Jovian ice moon Europa doesn’t just shine in reflected sunlight – it actually glows in the dark. *The latest launc...
Nov 25, 2020•30 min
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 125 *Brightest kilonova ever seen Astronomers have detected the brightest kilonova event ever seen unleashing more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 12-billion-year lifetime. *A new way of seeing invisible dark matter Astronomers have found a new way to estimate the amount of mysterious dark matter contained in halos around galaxies. *A record close shave as aste...
Nov 23, 2020•35 min
