SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 20 *Lockheed Martin to build the first rocket to take off from another planet NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to build the first rocket to launch from the surface of Mars. *Counting down to the launch of ExoMars This year should finally see the launch of the second part of the joint European Space Agency Roscosmos ExoMars mission to the red planet. *More power needed to make oxygen on the Moon and Mars A new study has found that splitting water in to its...
Feb 16, 2022•26 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 19 *Discovery of a free-floating black hole hiding in plain sight Astronomers have found evidence of black holes floating undetected through the darkness of interstellar space. *New planet detected around Proxima Centauri A third planet has been discovered orbiting around our nearest neighbouring star Proxima Centauri. *Extinction level asteroid impact on Mars Scientists have found evidence of an extinction le...
Feb 14, 2022•35 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 18 *A new theory explains how the Moon’s crust was formed A new study has shown how the freezing of a slushy magma ocean may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. *Lunar Gateway update Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally signed Canada up to NASA’s Lunar Gateway project. *Joint Russian and Chinese moon base to be operational in 2035 Russia and China will start work on their new...
Feb 11, 2022•56 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 17 *Earth’s new trojan asteroid Astronomers have discovered a new Earth trojan asteroid. *Hundreds of mysterious strands discovered in the Milky Way’s heart Astronomers looking at the turbulent center of the Milky Way galaxy have observed nearly a thousand mysterious strands or filaments simply dangling in space *China launches its 156th Earth observation satellite China is continuing its program of launching ...
Feb 09, 2022•30 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 16 *Water flowed on Mars far longer than thought A new study claims water flowed across the Martian surface for much longer than previously thought. The new data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago. *New Evidence of Recent Venusian Volcanism A new data analysis has found more evidence of recent volcanism on the planet ...
Feb 07, 2022•41 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 15 *Counting down to a crash on the Moon A four tonne Falcon 9 upper stage booster will crash into the Moon on March 4th – hitting the lunar surface at over nine thousand kilometres per hour. *James Webb reaches its final destination NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has finally arrived at its new home -- the Lagrangian L-2 position – a gravitational well one and a half million kilometres away on the opposite ...
Feb 04, 2022•27 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 14 *Growing debate about whether there’s liquid water under the Martian south pole Two separate studies have drawn opposite conclusions about the possible presence of liquid water reserves below the Martian South Pole. *The Mars Ingenuity helicopter grounded NASA has been forced to keep its Mars Ingenuity helicopter grounded because of a massive dust storm blanketing part of the red planet. *The Tonga volcanic...
Feb 02, 2022•36 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 13 *A mysterious object unlike anything seen before Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new celestial phenomenon in our galactic neighbourhood that’s unlike anything ever seen before. *A black hole unlike any other Astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other hidden in the heart of a globular cluster in our nearest big neighbouring galaxy M31 Andromeda. *First Russian space walk for the year ...
Jan 31, 2022•40 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 12 *Evidence for internal ocean in Saturnian moon Mimas Data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests the tiny Saturnian moon Mimas could have a significant sub surface ocean. *James Webb commences its mirror alignment NASA’s James Webb space telescope has begun the delicate months long process of aligning its optics. *SpaceX launches 105 satellites on a single flight SpaceX has successfully launched 105 satellite...
Jan 28, 2022•28 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 11 *Earth’s interior is cooling faster than expected A new study warns that the Earth is cooling much faster than previously estimated. *Milky Way has less mass than expected A new study suggests the Milky Way galaxy is smaller than previously thought. *China starts the new year with a top-secret launch China has kicked off its 2022 orbital launch campaign with a classified mission carrying an experimental spy...
Jan 26, 2022•25 min
Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite podcast app with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 10 *Intriguing carbon signatures discovered on Mars Scientists have discovered an isotope of carbon on Mars that’s usually only associated with biological processes on Earth. *Star production linked to stellar composition A new study shows that the composition of stars affects how well they seed th...
Jan 24, 2022•32 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 9 *The volcanic history of the red planet’s Jezero Crater New observations by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover suggest the South Séítah bedrock it’s been rolling over for the past few months likely formed from red-hot magma. *Mars Insight lander placed into safe mode NASA's Mars InSight lander has been placed into safe mode as a regional dust storm blasts the area. *Exploring the frozen wastes of the Martian Nor...
Jan 21, 2022•32 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 8 Listen to SpaceTime on your favourite App with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime *Making stars out of bubbles A new study has found the local bubble – a region of the galaxy through which the Sun, Earth and solar system are now travelling -- may have triggered the birth of thousands of new stars. *A new model to explain the lunar dichotomy A new study supports the idea that a massiv...
Jan 19, 2022•31 min
Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 7 *The Galaxy’s supermassive black hole maintains its mystery A new study has shown that Sagittarius A* -- the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy -- is unpredictable, erupting and flaring irregularly not just from day to day, but also in the long term. *Discovery of one of the bi...
Jan 17, 2022•38 min
Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 6 *Killer White dwarfs Astronomers have found that a killer white dwarf ripping a nearby planet, brown dwarf, or very low mass star apart. *International Space Station to fly till 2030 Washington has formally extended the life of the International Space Station to 2030. The space station was originally exp...
Jan 14, 2022•31 min
Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 5 *Failed Russian rocket crashes back to Earth A failed Russian test launch has seen a 4-tonne rocket stage crash back to Earth in an uncontrolled fiery re-entry. *Exploring the Jovian ice moon Europa NASA’s new Europa Clipper mission to study the Jovian ice moon Europa and global subsurface oceans. *TESS continues with mission extension NASA’s Transiting Exoplane...
Jan 12, 2022•30 min
Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite App with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 4 *New study measures antimatter’s reaction to gravity A new study has confirmed that matter and antimatter both respond the same way to gravity. *Joint European and Russian mission to the Moon The European Space Agency will include a drill and sample analysis package aboard the Russian Luna-27 mission to ...
Jan 10, 2022•35 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 3 *Solar Orbiter publishes a wealth of science results from its cruise phase Scientists are busy sifting through a wealth of data from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission which is studying our local star – the Sun. *How NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Making Mars Safer for Astronauts A radiation sensor aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is providing scientists with key data to help prepare humans for l...
Jan 07, 2022•33 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 2 *Earth and Mars were formed from inner Solar System material A new study has confirmed that the Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner Solar System – with only a tiny few percent originating beyond Jupiter's orbit. *Black holes carve out gigantic bubbles in a massive galaxy cluster Astronomers have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the centre of a galactic cl...
Jan 05, 2022•29 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 1 *The biggest scientific discovery of the past year - first black hole-neutron star mergers One of the unquestionable highlights of the past year in scientific research was the historic confirmation that one of the densest objects in the universe – a neutron star had been consumed by a black hole – the only thing even denser. *Discovery of a huge new population of free-floating planets Astronomers have discov...
Jan 03, 2022•42 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 145 *Ingenuity soars through alien skies yet again NASA’s Mars Ingenuity rotocopter has undertaken its 18th flight over the surface of the red planet. *Blue Origin launches its third space tourism flight. Blue Origin has launched its third space tourism flight into the clear blue skies of west Texas. *China undertakes its 400th Long March rocket launch China has undertaken its 50th orbital mission for the year...
Dec 31, 2021•40 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 144 *Evidence of a dark matter free galaxy Astronomers think they’ve found evidence of a dark matter free galaxy. *Asteroid Eurybates reveals some of its secrets Astronomers have used the blink of a distant star to determine the size of an asteroid in orbit near Jupiter. *Russia launches classified military satellite Russia has launched a classified military payload into orbit. The mission was launched aboard ...
Dec 30, 2021•28 min
SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 143 The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. *James Webb Space Telescope launches into space The James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully launched into orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. *NASA touches the Sun For the first time in history a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe reached the Sun’s extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, spending five hours there. *Giant asteroid near miss An asteroid the size of the Ei...
Dec 27, 2021•47 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 142 *Most of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies are new to the neighborhood A new study claims most of the fifty satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky Way are new to the neighbourhood and are only on their first pass of our galaxy. *The largest comet ever observed A new study shows that comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein -- the largest comet ever discovered – became active far earlier than previously thought. *N...
Dec 24, 2021•24 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 141 *NASA’s new laser satellite launched into orbit The future of space communications has been launched into orbit by NASA. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration together with a joint NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation were launched as part of the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Program 3 mission. *Hubble back to full operations NASA’s Hubble Space Tele...
Dec 22, 2021•32 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 140 *NASA launch’s its new X-ray eyes in the sky NASA has launched a new x-ray telescope to study the most extreme and mysterious objects in the universe such as supernovae and black holes. *Manned Moon landing could be delayed until 2027 NASA’s original plans to return people to the Moon in 2024 have already been pushed back by a year -- Now there are serious concerns that man won’t return to the Moon until 2...
Dec 20, 2021•24 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 139 *Jets discovered erupting from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Astronomers have detected jets erupting from Sagittarius A* -- the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. *A new tool in the search for life beyond Earth A new study says scientists need to know more about the chemical make up of the Venusian atmosphere before they can really speculate about the possibility of lif...
Dec 17, 2021•41 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 138 *New study says one in five galaxies could be hidden Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies 29 billion light-years away. *Hundreds of new planets discovered NASA has announced the discovery of another 301 exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. *Black Sky launches from southern Queensland Black Sky Aerospace has suc...
Dec 03, 2021•43 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 137 *The Magellanic stream closer than previously thought A new study suggests the Magellanic stream is five times closer to the Milky Way galaxy than previously thought. The discovery means it will start colliding with the Milky Way far sooner than expected. *New Zealand’s Rocket Lab launches its 22nd Electron mission Rocket Lab has successfully launched another two satellites into orbit aboard its Electron r...
Dec 01, 2021•24 min
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 136 *Near-Earth asteroid might be a lost fragment of the Moon A new study claims a near Earth asteroid might be a fragment of the Moon. The one hundred and fifty metre wide space rock called Kamo`oalewa is a quasi-satellite orbiting around the Sun with the Earth -- often getting to within 15 Million kilometres of Earth. *The fastest spinning white dwarf ever seen Astronomers have discovered the fastest spinnin...
Nov 29, 2021•27 min
