Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Astronomy Daily the Podcast – S02E07 May 19, 2023. Summary: In today's episode of the Astronomy Daily Podcast. *SpaceX is preparing for another test of its Starship vehicle, aiming to make it fully reusable for missions to the Moon and Mars. There was a recent unsuccessful flight of the Starship. *The company is also scheduled to launch the Iridium One Web mission soon. *Chinese scientists are con...

Astronomy Daily the Podcast – S02E06 May 17, 2023 In today's episode of Astronomy Daily, Tim Gibbs and Hallie, his AI assistant, discuss several developments in space exploration. The first story covers the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, which has been spotted heading towards Jupiter to study its atmosphere and its three moons, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, in order to assess the...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast Astronomy Daily the Podcast - Episode May 15, 2023 European spacecraft, Jupiter IC moons explorer (JUICE), successfully freed a 16-meter radar antenna, which had been jammed for a month, and will use it to investigate Jupiter's moons Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede. NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission, which aimed to hunt for ice in the lunar south pol...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast On the May 8, 2023 episode of Astronomy Daily, the show covers a variety of topics in space and astronomy. French startup Zephalto is partnering with the French space agency to offer high altitude stratospheric balloon flights for passengers at a staggering cost of $11,000 deposit. Research from China's Mars rover suggests that Martian equator san...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast In this episode of Astronomy Daily for May 5th, 2023, Tim Gibbs and Halley, his AI assistant, discuss a few coronation and royal-related stories. They also cover news about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observing AGNs, GOES-U satellite's successful test deployment of its solar array, Spire Global Incorporated's new deep navigation analytics platfo...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast In this episode of Astronomy Daily, host Steve Dunkley and digital reporter Halley discuss various space-related news stories. The first news is about a study conducted by scientists from the University of Helsinki that measured cosmic radiation levels on board several aircraft on various flights. The results showed that exposure levels vary great...

In this Astronomy Daily podcast episode, new host Tim Gibbs (AstroTim) is joined by Halley to discuss the latest news in space exploration. Private companies like Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, Mast and Space Systems, Blue Origin, and SpaceX are planning multiple missions to the Moon, some to deliver scientific instruments and payloads, while others will transport humans in the future. SpaceX's S...

Hi, thanks for joining me. This is Astronomy Daily. My name is Andrew Dunkley, your host. Coming up on today's program, the first human spaceflight in history. Yes, you heard me right, but I left a little bit out - for India. That's not far away, actually. We're also going to be looking at a new instrument that's being developed by NASA to try and find planets that could bear life or be habitable....

Thanks again for joining me on Astronomy Daily. Andrew Dunkley here, your host. Coming up today, a mystery of our galaxy has been solved. Yet another huge telescope to be built and a new tool to unravel the mysteries of the Sun. Hope you can stick around for this edition of Astronomy Daily. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube and wherever you get podcasts from. Apple Pod...

And Happy International Dalek Remembrance Day! Hi there, thanks for joining me on Astronomy Daily. Andrew Dunkley here, your host. And coming up on today's edition, Powering Up the Red Planet, a new way that we might be able to detect extraterrestrials, and an ancient calendar discovered in Mexico. That's all to come on Astronomy Daily. Astronomy Daily, the podcast, with your host Andrew Dunkley....

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast Hi, thanks for joining me. This is Astronomy Daily. I'm your host, Andrew Dunkley. Coming up today, a comet interceptor mission. Nothing to do with DART or the plans of the Chinese that we talked about last week. This is another new mission. Also, the solar system has a magnetic tunnel, and we look at space junk because it's getting so junky up th...

Coming up on this episode, we're going to look at Enceladus because scientists think they've found the last piece of the puzzle that would give Enceladus everything it needs to have life. We've also in the past been talking about Mars and how it's starting to look a bit more active than they anticipated and now another piece of evidence to that effect has been uncovered. And Uranus, yes it's the b...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast This is Astronomy Daily. My name is Andrew Dunkley, your host, as we take a look at some of the astronomy and space science news of the day. Coming up in this episode, the sound of a dust devil on Mars. The James Webb Space Telescope tops the 2022 achievement list and two water planets may have been detected, plus generating power from space. All...

Hello again and thanks for joining us on Astronomy Daily. Coming up on this edition, we're going to be looking at a few landmark pieces of science, particularly about a breakthrough in the provision of power going forward. We're talking about fusion, which is quite an extraordinary discovery if it holds true. And we're also going to look at another breakthrough in science, that of making light tra...

Thanks for joining us on Astronomy Daily, where we take a daily look at astronomy and space science news. I'm your host, Andrew Dunkley. Coming up, we are going to be looking at bending space time. Also the sad truth about Proxima Centauri and disappearing stars. Can we find them again? Well, maybe we can. That's all coming up on Astronomy Daily the podcast. With your host, Andrew Dunkley. Availab...

Hello once again, thanks for joining me on Astronomy Daily. Hope you're well. Coming up in this episode, we're going to tell you who owns the Moon. Or does anybody own it at all? That is the question. And we're going to look into something that hit Earth recently. That has been the subject of significant study. And astronomers at the Atacama Desert have taken a look at the light of the Universe an...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast Hi there, thanks for joining us on Astronomy Daily, I'm your host Andrew Duntley and I hope you had a good weekend whatever you did and wherever you are. Coming up on this episode, splashdown for the Orion capsule and a conclusion to the Artemis 1 mission. Detecting dark matter in a very different way, the most distant galaxies yet discovered by t...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast Thanks for joining us on Astronomy Daily. Andrew Duntley here, your host. Hope you're well. Coming up on today's show, another major discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope. A Neo-Surveyor has been approved. What does that mean? I will explain. And the last ever photo on the Moon has been found. We'll tell you all about that and more on this e...

S01E75 Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast Thanks for joining us on Astronomy Daily. Andrew Duntley here, your host. Hope you're well. Coming up on today's show, another major discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope. A Neo-Surveyor has been approved. What does that mean? I will explain. And the last ever photo on the Moon has been found. We'll tell you all about that and more on...

Thanks for joining us on another edition of Astronomy Daily. Andrew Dunkley here. And coming up on today's program, Mars may still be an active world. New images of Titan reveal rare clouds. Sharing the James Webb Space Telescope data might be a bad thing. And we may not have heard from extraterrestrials for one interesting reason. A new theory yet again. Those stories are all coming up on this ed...

Today’s Space, Astronomy, and Science News Podcast Thanks for joining us on Astronomy Daily yet again, my name is Andrew Dunkley, your host, and coming up on this edition, we'll be looking at the Orion Nebula, a bit of a follow-up on Venus and that report a year or two back about the discovery of phosphine in its atmosphere, the latest attempt to find extraterrestrials and dark skies today. A sign...

Thanks for joining me again on Astronomy Daily. Andrew Dunkley here, your host. Hope you had a great weekend. Coming up on today's program to kick off the week, more on the Hipparcos star chart. We've talked about this before and it's fascinating. We've got more information on that. A SpaceX moon mission is a distinct possibility; where stars go to die and something really amazing at Epcot which w...

Coming up on today's show, it's looking like the history of Mars has got some uncanny similarities to Earth. And I'm not just talking about the fact that it used to be a wet, warm planet that could have harbored life. No, other things have happened that might surprise you. We'll be looking into that. We'll also be looking at a big flash of light that has been studied by astronomers. We're talking...

Today we're going to look at the cause of the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus. They think they've nailed down what's happened. Special guest will be my good friend and Astronomer At Large, Professor Fred Watson. We're also going to look at an out-of-this-world egg experiment and some new minerals discovered on Earth never seen before. That's all coming up on Astronomy Daily. S01E70 Today’s Spac...

Coming up in this episode we're going to look at the bright lights of supermassive black holes. How is that possible when they don't emit light? We'll explain. A large extra-galactic structure has been discovered. And I know you're thinking aliens but I'm thinking not. And an interesting effect as a consequence of COVID on the publication of astronomical papers. We'll discuss all of that and more...