We still don't know what is Dark Matter. We can see its effects but we don't know what it's made of. However, with their latest publication, Dr Amruth Alfred suggests that dark matter should be made of axions (which are one of the candidates among other particles). Paper by Dr Amruth Alfred and his team: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01943-9 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-uni...
Jun 17, 2023•58 min
A white dwarf is starting to turn into a diamond. Another key element for life found in the plumes at Enceladus. The Parker Solar Probe discovers the source of the fast solar wind. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 White Dwarf Turns Into Diamond https://www.universetoday.com/161929/a-white-dwa...
Jun 16, 2023•24 min
Is nuking the Sun a good way to disarm the Earth? Should they rebuild the Arecibo observatory? How will SpaceX Starship change spaceflight? Could we see a reflection of an exomoon in a planet's ocean? Can a heavy suit help fight lower gravity effects on Moon and Mars? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:50 [Tatoo...
Jun 14, 2023•31 min
Betelgeuse is unexpectedly bright, and update of JWST’s Deep Field program, and more problems with the Boeing Starliner. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:13 Betelgeuse Is Acting Weird Again https://www.universetoday.com/161751/betelgeuse-is-almost-50-brighter-than-normal-whats-going-on/ 03:15 Webb Deep Field https://www.universetoday.com/161792/jwst-s...
Jun 09, 2023•20 min
Was the Universe ever the size of an orange or a basketball? Can life exist on planets that cannot be escaped? Can the asteroid belt ever produce a new planet? Is the CMB slowly changing over time? What happens at the very edge of the observable Universe? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:41 [Tatooine] Was the ...
Jun 06, 2023•39 min
Lots of new discoveries from JWST. How a software bug killed HAKUTO-R. Kepler’s last ever exoplanets. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:12 JWST Spies Huge Water Plumes on Enceladus https://www.universetoday.com/161655/jwst-spies-a-gigantic-water-plume-at-enceladus/ 02:15 Ultra-Hot Jupiter Mapped by Webb https://www.universetoday.com/161719/jwst-scans-a...
Jun 02, 2023•22 min
NASA chooses another lander for Artemis V. The first radiation belt ever seen outside the Solar System. And those impossible galaxies might be even more massive than we thought. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Blue Origin wins NASA Moon Landing Contract https://www.universetoday.com/161484/artemis-v-is-going-to-the-moon-with-blue-origin/ 03:12 Hak...
May 26, 2023•20 min
It's already been five years since NASA's TESS mission was launched. Now it completed its first full mission observing the sky and hunting for exoplanets. In this interview, I'm talking with Nicole Colon from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the results from TESS and what can come next for the mission. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:12 How's...
May 25, 2023•54 min
Could stars and planets be living organisms? Is LHC dangerous for the Earth? How do neutrino detectors work? Does the Big Bang suggest that everything around us came from nothing? What will happen if we create a black hole on Earth? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 👉 Ultimate Solar System https://planet...
May 23, 2023•35 min
If an extra-terrestrial civilisation saw the Earth, what technosignatures could they pick up? What could they learn about life on our planet and human civilisation in particular? I'm discussing that with Dr Michael Garrett who is the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Simulation of the Earth’s radio-leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/522/2/239...
May 23, 2023•52 min
NASA tests out a snake bot that could explore difficult terrain. An independent way to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. JUICE successfully deploys its radar antenna. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Happy End for JUICE https://www.universetoday.com/161383/hurray-juice-deploys-its-stuck-antenna/ 02:09 A Warning Before A Solar Storm Disast...
May 19, 2023•20 min
In the second part of my conversation with Dr Christopher Morrison we discuss his second NIAC award. It suggests creating a power source that can also be a science instrument. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Interstellar Sample Return with Dr Chris Morrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsON8yF5Rjo 👉 Part I with Dr Chris Morrison: https://youtu.be/FIZHGDyN-7E 👉 More about the NIAC grant: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/EmberCore_Flashligh...
May 18, 2023•23 min
How can we get artificial gravity in space without rotating a spacecraft? Will there be bigger Mars helicopters in future? How exactly will they deorbit the ISS? Who will be selecting the crew for the Mars mission? Where are the Voyagers today and how can we find them? Answering all that and more in this week's Q&A episode. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📕 Book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:49 Book Clu...
May 16, 2023•35 min
Moon Dust will be a major problem once people will return and settle there. We need to find ways to clean it from space suits, equipment, etc. In this interview I'm talking with Ian Wells, who is a cryogenics researcher suggesting a way to battle Moon dust with liquid nitrogen. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Interview with Dr Christine Hartzell: https://youtu.be/LfigUsu7V2Q 00:00 Intro 01:13 How bad is lunar dust 09:34 Liquid nitrogen spray 13:31 How can it be use...
May 13, 2023•30 min
There could be liquid oceans in the moons of Uranus. Saturn takes the lead for the most moons in the Solar System. James Webb gazes into the Eye of Sauron aka Fomalhaut. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmnK1xmCRad_8bn0uOcmLiIE ⚫️ Universe-Breaking Galaxies Interview: https://youtu.be/xPK9kF2tqfk 00:00 Intro 00:14 Uranus' moons might have oceans under the ice https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-study-of-ur...
May 12, 2023•19 min
This is the first part of my interview with Dr Cristopher Morrison. In this one, we're discussing the concept of a propulsion system that should allow things like catching up with an interstellar visitor or delivering a telescope to the outer part of the Solar System. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday Previous Interview with Dr Chris Morrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsON8yF5Rjo 👉 More about the NIAC grant: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/...
May 11, 2023•40 min
Gravitational waves can reveal things we would never detect otherwise. But different events require different sizes of detectors. In this interview, I'm talking with Waldemar Martens from ESA about a proposed LISAmax mission that will have 259 million kilometer arms and should be able to detect collisions of supermassive black holes. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday More about LISAmax: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08287 00:00 Intro 01:38 What's the status of LISA 10:18 W...
May 10, 2023•52 min
How can James Webb disprove The Big Bang Theory? Where are we at the search of life as we DON'T know it? Can we somehow test if Hawking radiation even exists? What do Space Force use the X37 secret space shuttle for? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:49 [Tatooine] How can Webb disprove The Big Bang Theory? 06:21 [Coruscant] Does Hawking radiation even exist? 12:10 [Hoth] Where are we at the search of life as we DON'T know it? 17:56 [Naboo] How do we study...
May 09, 2023•37 min
Microgravity is dangerous for humans. But if we want to conquer space, we need to know how to mitigate the negative effects. Join my discussion with Dr Danail Obreschkow from UWA. We talked about studying the effects of microgravity on human body, particularly eyes, and potential ways to deal with them. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 Flying on parabolic flights 08:49 What does weightlessness do to human body 14:17 Things we can't fix 17:44 Studying ...
May 07, 2023•36 min
JUICE is having problems extending its radar antenna. Astronomers watch a star eat its planet. A design for a space station with artificial gravity. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 JUICE Has Problems https://www.universetoday.com/161180/esa-cant-deploy-juices-radar-antenna-it-needs-it-to-scan-under-the-ice-at-callisto-europa-and-ganymede/ 01:39 A Sun-Like Star Eats its Planet https://news.mit.edu/2023/astronomers-spot-star-swallowing-planet-0503 02:5...
May 05, 2023•20 min
Space missions will become longer. It will inevitably become impossible to pack every medication you need and take it from Earth. This means that we'll need a way to produce them in space. Which is the goal of the NIAC award developed by Dr Lynn Rothschild. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday More about the NIAC award: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Astropharmacy/ 00:00 Intro 02:15 Printing medicine in space 17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology...
May 04, 2023•58 min
Can solar sails change the way we explore the Solar System and beyond? Dr Slava Turyshev definitely thinks so! He assembled an all-star team of researchers in a recent paper about potential science opportunities of using solar sails. In this interview, we talk about the technology behind it, what's its current state, what perspectives it has and much more. 🌟 All-star paper "Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats": https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14917 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://pa...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 7 min
How can we possibly know everything about exoplanets from just a single pixel? Will Mars be a good place for old people? Where does more emptiness come from if the Universe is expanding? Can we ever get to explore Betelgeuse? Answers to all these questions and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:43 [Tatooine] How do we know so much about exoplanets from single pixel images? 11:43 [Coruscant] Side windows on Mars greenhouses? 13:...
May 02, 2023•40 min
When we fly to Moon and Mars, how hard will it be to deal with dust. It can be a much more difficult problem when most of us think. And why is it so hard to clean it off solar panels on Mars. We discuss all that with Dr Christine Hartzell. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 What is Moon dust 07:55 What damage can dust do 12:57 What can we do about it 20:19 How big the problem really is 22:08 Why don't they just... 30:11 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://yo...
May 01, 2023•32 min
iSpace's Hakuto R fails to land safely on the Moon. China wants to have people on the Moon by 2030. Another problem with James Webb. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 Starship discussion with @scottmanley and @MarcusHouse https://youtu.be/RGcdjJj-f4g 00:00 Intro 00:12 iSpace Hakuto-R Moon Landing Failed https://www.universetoday.com/161051/hakuto-r-spacecraft-just-captured-its-own-stunning-version-of-earthrise/ 03:10 China’s Going to the Moon by 2030 https://www.univ...
Apr 29, 2023•20 min
The FarView Observatory is a NIAC project that's a giant self-building radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. In this interview, I'm discussing the details of the project with Dr Ronald Polidan who's managing the project. We also talk about the role of the Moon in the future of lunar exploration and how close we are to sending Von Neumann probes all over the Universe. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the FarView Observatory NIAC Award: https://www.n...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min
SpaceX finally tested a fully stacked Starship system on April 20th. Why did they blow it up? What exactly went wrong with the test? How can they fix it in future tests? Discussing all these questions with Scott Manley and Marcus House. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley 📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse 00:00 Intro 00:46 How did the launch go 02:46 Stage Zero problems 09:39 Flight analysis 19:36 H...
Apr 26, 2023•34 min
Did Webb prove the Big Bang Theory wrong? Why did nobody test artificial gravity in space yet? What's the purpose of other planets other than Earth? How would eyes evolve under a different star? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:04 [Tatooine] Did James Webb prove Big Bang wrong? 11:07 [Coruscant] What is the purpose of other planets? 17:32 [Hoth] How big does a star need to be to become a black hole? 21:01 [Naboo]...
Apr 25, 2023•44 min
Starship launches but fails to reach orbit. JUICE looks back at Earth one last time. GAIA helps find an exoplanet. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:11 Starship Launch https://www.universetoday.com/160951/starship-spacex-flight-test/ 03:53 NASA Threaten the Future of New Horizons https://www.universetoday.com/160935/nasa-plans-threaten-new-horizons/ 06:33 JUICE Looks Back at Earth https://www.universetoday.com/160992/juice-looks-back-earth-jupiter-moons/ ...
Apr 21, 2023•20 min
Magnetospheres seem to be a very important factor when considering how habitable a planet is. So it was really exciting when it was announced that an Earth-size exoplanet's magnetosphere was detected using radio telescopes. It can also be a method to look for exoplanets by detecting their magnetic fields. I'm discussing this discovery with Dr Joe Pesce who is the Program Director at National Science Foundation. More about the discovery: https://www.universetoday.com/160864/do-repeating-radio-sig...
Apr 19, 2023•28 min
