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Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A Chinese rocket just became only the second booster ever recovered after an orbital launch, landing on a barge after sending its payload skyward. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Webb Reveals Dusty Core of Centaurus A — NASA The James Webb Space Telescope will mark four years of science operations on July 12. ... AI Disclosur...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A Falcon 9 booster has now completed its 36th flight and landing, carrying 29 more Starlink satellites into orbit. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Falcon 9 Completes Record 36th Flight and Landing — Spaceflight Now The booster B1067 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 0925 UTC carrying the Starlink Group 10-...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A total solar eclipse will turn day to night across northern Spain next month as the Moon fully covers the Sun. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Total Solar Eclipse Due Across Northern Spain in August — Phys.org The Moon will completely cover the Sun on August 12, briefly turning day into night along a path through northern Sp...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Euclid telescope has found the two oldest quasars known, their light crossing more than 13 billion years to reach us. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Asteroid Encounters Draw Attention This Weekend — Ars Technica Two separate asteroid flybys occurred over the weekend, each passing within a few lunar distances of Earth. ... AI...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News An asteroid set for a once-in-a-millennium Earth flyby could be seen by ninety percent of the world's population. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Once-in-a-millennium asteroid flyby visible to much of world in 2029 — Space.com Asteroid Apophis will pass unusually close to Earth during its 2029 approach. ... AI Disclosure: Thi...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers just found giant planets lighter than cotton candy, forcing a rethink of how worlds assemble. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy — Space News Two newly characterized worlds match Jupiter in size yet contain far less mass, placing them...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A robotic spacecraft just launched to nudge a long-running NASA observatory back into a stable orbit. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Pegasus XL launches LINK spacecraft to reboost Swift — SpaceNews The Pegasus XL lifted off from Kwajalein Atoll carrying Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicer on the SWIFT Reboost Mission. ......

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A planet 25 light-years away shows signs it could support liquid water on its surface. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Webb and Hubble Compare Views of FS Tau Protostar Jet — NASA The James Webb Space Telescope captured an infrared view of the FS Tau system that pierces thick dust to show multiple bright protostars. ... AI Di...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A shoebox-sized probe will soon ride an asteroid flyby to test surface operations before the rock skims Earth in 2029. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories ESA Greenlights Airbus for Aeolus-2 Wind Mission — European Space Agency The agency has authorised Airbus Defence and Space to begin full development of the follow-on mission a...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News NASA is weighing whether to send a spare Mars rover to the Moon while awarding nearly $600 million in new lunar lander contracts. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories NASA Awards Four Lunar Lander Missions to Three Firms — SpaceNews NASA selected Astrobotic, Firefly Space, and Intuitive Machines for the deliveries. The contracts t...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News NASA is launching a robot to lift its aging Swift telescope before atmospheric drag pulls it down. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Asteroid Day marks Tunguska anniversary and planetary defence milestones — European Space Agency The annual UN-recognised event falls on the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact in Siberia. ......

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Supermassive black holes keep flinging radio-emitting material into space years after swallowing a star, showing their appetites stay active long after the initial feast. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Falcon 9 lifts 7,000 kg SiriusXM satellite to geostationary orbit — Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched the SXM-11 satellite abo...

Fascinating Frontiers — Weekly Recap (Week of June 28, 2026) Thanks for joining me on Fascinating Frontiers, episode 115, for June 28, 2026. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production. 🎬 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPcFT7LWTgs 📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page 🌐 Part of the N...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Mars is gliding past the Pleiades star cluster in the early-morning sky, offering a rare close pairing visible before sunrise. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Mars passes within 5 degrees of the Pleiades cluster — Astronomy Magazine The Red Planet currently sits in Taurus and appears in the predawn sky. Today it lies less tha...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News After eight years of continuous thrust, BepiColombo has powered down its engines for the final coast toward Mercury. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories BepiColombo Turns Off Ion Engines for Mercury Arrival — European Space Agency The ESA/JAXA spacecraft has switched off its solar electric propulsion system after operating it for...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have captured the first “fingerprints” of a black hole’s event horizon, the boundary where nothing escapes. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories NASA cancels Gateway and upper stage amid major delays — Ars Technica An analysis shows the canceled Exploration Upper Stage and Gateway elements were years behind schedule. ....

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News An asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs also sustained underground conditions for life eight million years longer than earlier estimates. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production. 📝 Full show notes, transcript & source...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News An interstellar comet that passed the Sun last year may be nearly three times older than our Solar System and formed in a stellar system nothing like our own. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production. 📝 Full show notes, tr...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News NASA’s next flagship observatory has reached Florida for final checks before an August launch on a Falcon Heavy. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida — Spaceflight Now The $4.3 billion observatory touched down at Kennedy Space Center on June 21. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast i...

Fascinating Frontiers — Weekly Recap (Week of June 21, 2026) Welcome to Fascinating Frontiers, episode 108, coming to you on June 21, 2026. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production. 📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page 🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com .

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News JWST has imaged a galaxy cluster so massive and concentrated that it formed when such structures were not expected to exist yet. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Asteroid named for singer Elliott Smith — Space.com The International Astronomical Union has assigned asteroid 16154 to the late musician Elliott Smith. Smith died in...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A distant exoplanet once nicknamed the Pink Planet turns out to host salty clouds detectable only through infrared observations that pierce its thick atmosphere. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Galileo Adds Quasi-Pilot Signal for Low-Power Devices — European Space Agency The European Space Agency has activated the E5a Quasi P...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News An upgraded Ariane 6 just lofted Europe’s heaviest payload ever, 36 Amazon satellites riding on boosters carrying 14 extra tonnes of propellant each. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Ariane 6 Sets New European Payload Record — European Space Agency The VA269 flight lifted 36 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on the most powerfu...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Chandra spots possible supernova remains surprisingly close to the Milky Way’s central black hole. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Chandra Spots Possible Supernova Remnant Near Galactic Center — NASA X-ray data from Chandra reveal a candidate supernova remnant in the Milky Way’s central region. If confirmed, the remnant would...

Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News China's Tianwen-2 probe is executing a string of fine burns to reach its target asteroid next month. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Tianwen-2 Executes Series of Approach Burns — SpaceNews China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft performed multiple small propulsive maneuvers after its main burn on June 7. Radio tracking confirms the adju...