SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 109 *Something has dropped off the Mars helicopter in mid flight NASA have detected something falling off their Mars Ingenuity helicopter during its latest flight. *Testing the new SWOT satellite The new American and French Surface Water and Ocean Topography – or SWOT spacecraft has passed its final pre-flight tests and is now almost ready for its launch to space in December. *Russia to delay its departure from the International Space Station – for now Russia’s on aga...
Oct 14, 2022•20 min•Season 25Ep. 109
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 more questions than they answer. *NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Launches to International Space Station The SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance has successfully docked to the space-facing forward port of the Harmony module on the International Space Station two days after launching aboard a Fa...
Oct 12, 2022•42 min•Season 25Ep. 108
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 generated a massive comet like tail of dust and debris stretching back over ten thousand kilometres. *Another planet around Proxima Centauri The number of planets orbiting stars in the Sun’s neighbourhood keeps increasing. The nearest star system to the Sun Alpha Centauri now has at least...
Oct 10, 2022•38 min•Season 25Ep. 107
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 106 *JUNO undertakes a Europa flyby NASA's Juno spacecraft has undertaken a close flyby of the Jovian Ice moon Europa. *Planetary-scale heat wave discovered in Jupiter's atmosphere Astronomers have detected a planetary scale heatwave sweeping across Jupiter’s atmosphere. *More Starlinks take to the air SpaceX has launched another 52 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. *October Skywatch Our nearest neighbouring star system Alpha Centauri, two of our nearest neigh...
Oct 07, 2022•40 min•Season 25Ep. 106
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 105 *Mercury’s surface is changing rapidly A new study has found that the surface of the planet Mercury is changing rapidly. *Why it never pays to bet against Albert Einstein A new study once again proves Einstein was right -- We can absolutely rule out Newton’s law of gravity. *Missing carbon monoxide mystery A new study suggests missing amounts of carbon monoxide – a key component found in protoplanetary disks – is hiding inside ice formations within planetary nurse...
Oct 05, 2022•31 min•Season 25Ep. 105
NASA’s DART or Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft has successfully slammed into an asteroid in what’s been described as the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration mission. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spacetime-with-stuart-gary--2458531/support .
Oct 03, 2022•37 min•Season 25Ep. 104
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. *NASA's InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four asteroids that crashed on to the Martian surface in 2020 and 2021. *Rocket Lab launches its seventh Electron this year Rocket Lab has launched its 30th mi...
Sep 30, 2022•25 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 102 *James Webb Space Telescope develops a serious technical problem NASA’s James Webb space telescope has developed a problem with a key part of its spectroscope system used to analyse to chemical composition of objects... *But that hasn’t stopped it making some spectacular observations of Mars and Neptune NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first stunning images and spectra of the red planet Mars ...
Sep 28, 2022•41 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 101 *Bad weather scrubs a third launch attempt for the world’s most powerful rocket In a case of déjà vu all over again as NASA has been forced to scrub a third launch attempt of its massive Artemis 1 Moon rocket – this time because of Tropical storm Ian near Jamaica which was forecast to rapidly intensify and move towards the Florida coast. *NASA's Lunar IceCube mission Hitching a ride on NASA's Artemis Moon ...
Sep 26, 2022•31 min
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. *Continental plate movements control Earth’s largest volcanic events A new study has found a surprising link between the slowing of continental plate movements and the timing of Earth’s largest volcanic events. *More and More Starlinks launched SpaceX says that even though its reques...
Sep 23, 2022•27 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 99 *Dream Chaser space plane could be used as a rapid response military transport Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane will now begin flying cargo to the International Space Station for NASA in February 2023 instead of the 2022 launch date originally planned. *Ariane 6 launchpad testing Development and testing of the European Space Agency’s new Ariane 6 launch vehicle is now underway at the Kourou Space Port in French Guyana. *Ariane 5 undertakes one of its final ...
Sep 21, 2022•21 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 98 *Gamma rays from neighbouring galaxy related to dead stars Astronomers say that a mysterious source of high energy gamma rays discovered near the galactic centre of the Milky Way could have originated in the neighbouring Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy. *Volcanic super eruptions are millions of years in the making A new study claims volcanic super eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth’...
Sep 19, 2022•37 min
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 coronal mass ejection blasting out from the Sun. *Mars dryness runs deep A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed that the mission’s equatorial landing site isn’t just dry as a bone – but that dryness runs deep with little or no subsurface ice f...
Sep 16, 2022•31 min
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 the Earth's crust the size of Ireland underneath what is now Western Australia. *The origins of Earth’s water It was revealed this year that Earth’ received its life-giving water during its formation in the protoplanetary disk from which the Sun and solar system were created 4.6 b...
Sep 14, 2022•30 min
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 slightly larger Near-Earth asteroid to see what happens. *NASA now looking at a potential Artemis 1 launch this month NASA says it could target potential launch windows on September 23rd and 27th for the maiden test flight of its Artemis 1 Moon rocket. *Growing Thale cress plants in l...
Sep 12, 2022•21 min
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 lots of olivine. *New planetary nebulae discovery Astronomers have confirmed a large and evolved planetary nebula 4500 light years away in the Messier 37 open star cluster in the constellation Auriga the charioteer. *Atlas V launches new spy satellite A United Launch Alliance A...
Sep 09, 2022•34 min
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 of Earth’s so called sister planet. *NASA fixes the glitch on the Voyager 1 spacecraft – mankind’s most distant traveller NASA engineers have fixed a critical system aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft which was sending garbled data about its status -- however, the root cause of t...
Sep 07, 2022•29 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 92 *NASA postpones future Artemis 1 launch attempts following another scrub NASA has decided to postpone any future launch attempts for the Artemis 1 mission this month after they were forced to again scrub the flight because of a persistent hydrogen propellant leak. *James Webb’s first image of a distant world NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first ever direct image of a planet beyond our s...
Sep 05, 2022•28 min
Welcome to a sampler edition of our new Astronomy & Space Science News podcast, Astronomy Daily - the Podcast. Hosted by Andrew Dunkley (one half of the Space Nuts podcast) and his feisty AI Assistant/Newsreader Hailley. Each day Andrew and Hailley bring you a roundup of the day's developments in the rapidly changing world of Space Science and Astronomy, from stories featured in the Astronomy Daily Newsletter. Presented in a fun format, this short-form podcast is designed to keep you in touc...
Sep 03, 2022•10 min
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 Atlantic Ocean which may have hit Earth at the same time as the infamous dinosaur killing KT boundary event Chicxulub asteroid. *A close up look at black hole jets Astronomers have been given their most detailed look yet at the structure of the spectacular jets generated by feeding s...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 7 min
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 Betelgeuse back in 2019 and 2020 was caused by it blowing away a massive chunk of its stellar surface. *Could Earth’s continents have come from outer space? A new study suggests Earth’s continents were formed by material delivered in giant meteor impacts. *NASA’s DAVINCI mission to...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 5 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 89 *The ongoing search for Dark Matter Scientists have placed new limits on where the mysterious invisible substance known as dark matter could be hiding. *Another win for Modified Newtonian dynamics over dark matter Astronomers have unexpectedly found strong evidence supporting Modified Newtonian dynamics or MOND rather than dark matter to best explain the observations of the gravitational tidal effects in th...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 3 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 88 *New record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen Astronomers have just set another new record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen – a stellar city dating back to just 250 million years after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. *Earth sets its own new record for the shortest day ever If the Earth seemed to spin a little faster for you on June 29th – it wasn’t your imagination or...
Aug 10, 2022•58 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 87 *NASA to send two more choppers to Mars for sample return mission. NASA says its Mars Ingenuity helicopter has been so successful, two more will be built and sent to the red planet to help with the planned sample return mission. *Top Secret Space Shuttle sets a record The clandestine X-37B space shuttle has shattered its own orbital mission duration record of 780 days in space. *China expands its space station China has launched the second module of its new Tiangon...
Aug 05, 2022•37 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 86 *Another Russian promise to leave the International Space Station Russia have again announced plans to quit the International Space Station sometime after 2024. *ExoMars launch date moved to 2028 The European Space Agency’s EXO-Mars mission to search for signs of past or present life on the red planet – which was to launch in a few weeks’ time -- is now likely to fly in 2028 – ten years after it was first meant to fly. *The records continue to tumble for SpaceX and...
Aug 03, 2022•31 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 85 *Has James Webb already found some of the earliest galaxies in the universe? Astronomers are speculating that NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope may have already discovered the most distant and hence earliest galaxy in the universe. *New telescopes to see gravitational wave sources Australia is about to get a new telescope array specifically designed to find the sources of gravitational waves generated b...
Aug 01, 2022•26 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 84 *New studies suggest you’ll need to dig deep to find life on Mars A new study has confirmed that future Mars rovers will need to drill at least two metres below the red planet’s surface to find any evidence of ancient Martian life – if it ever existed. *Mars Helicopter grounded by sensor glitch NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been grounded after suffering a sensor failure. *A new joint American and Australian spy satellite launched Rocket Lab have successfully...
Jul 29, 2022•27 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 83 *Three new particles discovered at CERN The international LHCb collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has discovered three never-before-seen subatomic particles. *The new telescope to test competing theories of Dark Energy Simulated tests of the ultra-deep field galaxy survey observations expected from NASA upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope mission have astonished astronomers. *Cygnus used to boost Space Station for the first time NASA have used a d...
Jul 27, 2022•43 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 82 *A launch date set for NASA’s Artemis-1 mission to the Moon NASA is looking at August 29 as the potential launch date for the maiden flight of the massive SLS Moon rocket on Artemis-1. *Warnings about the DART asteroid impact mission A new study warns that NASA’s planned DART mission could leave its target asteroid badly deformed. *Counting down to the death of a red giant Astronomers have for the first time witnessed a rare stellar pulse that is foreshadowing the ...
Jul 25, 2022•38 min
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 81 *The ultimate fate of a star shredded by a black hole Astronomers studying the destruction of a star by a black hole have unraveled another mystery in how stars are torn apart by these dark monsters. *NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector A new NASA science package to attach to the International Space Station will monitory how dusty the Earth is – and how that affects the environment. *Moscow adorns their Progress cargo ship with anti-Ukrainian propaganda A Russian Prog...
Jul 22, 2022•29 min
