SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

*Vega C explodes in mid flight The European Space Agency has suspended all Vega flights and established an independent board of inquiry following the failure of a Vega C rocket during its ascent to orbit. *A violent leak threatens the space worthiness of a Soyuz capsule docked to the space station The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos are trying to determine if the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is s...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 140 *NASA’s Insight lander goes silent NASA’s Mars Insight lander has failed to respond to calls from mission managers back on Earth and may have gone silent after running out of power. *Biggest Marsquake ever recorded Insight scientists are reporting Insights detection of the largest marsquake ever recorded on the red planet – some five times bigger than any previously...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 139 *Mars helicopter sets new altitude record NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter has set a new altitude record on its 35th flight on the red planet. *Dark matter could be made up of dark photons A team of scientists have hypothesized that a mysterious substance called dark matter could be composed of something they’re calling dark photons. *NASA’s Mars InSight lander stil...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 138 *First-ever sound recording of dust devils on Mars Astronomers get the first ever sound recording of a dust devil twisting its way across the surface of Mars. *What the first galaxies were, and weren't, like Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the ear...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 137 *The mysterious meteor that changes everything Astronomers believe that a meteor which streaked across the darkened skies of central Alberta didn’t originate in the inner solar system but from the far reaches of the distant Oort cloud. *NASA’s Artemis 1 mission declared a massive success NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down in the North P...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 136 *What Earth’s volcanic history can tell us about Venus A new study claims volcanic activity lasting hundreds to thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus from a warm wet world like the Earth in to the acidic hothouse it is today. *The Moonlight initiative The European Space Agency has commenced development of the...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 135 *Astronomers identify a paradigm-changing cosmic explosion Our standard Astronomy text books will need to be re-written after scientists discovered a distant blast unlike anything ever seen before. *Saturn’s rings and tilt could have been caused by an ancient, missing moon A new study suggests that the majestic ringed world of Saturn may ow its spectacular ring syst...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 134 *A giant mantle plume identified on Mars A new study suggests the Martian core could still be at least partially molten liquid. The findings reported in the journal Nature Astronomy are based on the detection of what appears to be a deep mantle plume – a region of liquid magma heated by the planet’s core and rising towards the surface. *A new technique to study plan...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 133 *The mysteriously bright flash pointing straight at Earth Earlier this year, astronomers detected an extraordinary bright flash in a part of the sky half way across the universe where no such light had ever been observed before. *Construction begins on the Square Kilometre Array We’ve been talking about it for more than a dozen years planning for it almost as long …...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 132 *Martian dust storms generate Earth like clouds ESA's Mars Express has revealed that Mars churns up surprisingly Earth-like cloud patterns that are reminiscent of those in our planet's tropical regions. *Solar storm smashes a crack in Earth’s magnetosphere. It’s been revealed that a solar storm which smashed the Earth last month cracked a hole in the planet’s magnet...

*Artemis 1 on its way home NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is on its way home after completing its distant retrograde lunar orbit around the Moon. *More possible organic compounds found in Mars crater rocks Scientists are reporting the detection of more possible organic compounds in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater. *Astrophysicists hunt for second-closest supermassive black hole Two astrophysicis...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 130 *Are the Sun’s solar cycles getting weaker New computer modelling suggests the Sun’s 11 year solar cycle is getting weaker, and scientists aren’t sure how that will affect the Earth. *New NASA climate change mission ready to launch NASA has greenlighted the launch of its Surface Water and Ocean Topography or SWOT spacecraft on December 12. The two thousand kilogram...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 129 *Are we seeing the first light in the universe The Webb Space Telescope is now unveiling what could be light from the very first stars in the universe – revealing a very rich cosmos where the first forming galaxies look remarkably different from the mature galaxies seen around us today. *Innermost structure of quasar jet Astronomers using a global network of radio t...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 128 *Orion’s historic journey around the Moon NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has arrived safely in lunar orbit and has now well into its distant retrograde orbit which is taking the mission some 92,195 kilometres beyond the Moon – further than any other human rated spaceship. *Scientists find a field full of meteorites from asteroid explosion over South Australia Sci...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 127 *How black holes control star formation New observations using NASA’s Webb Space Telescope are showing astronomers how black holes control star formation in galaxies. *Euclid completes thermal vacuum testing The European Space Agency's new Euclid spacecraft has completed a key phase of its pre-flight thermal testing program as engineers and scientists prepare the pr...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 126 *Hubble captures three faces of an evolving supernova NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has images three different moments at once in a far-off supernova explosion that happened 11 billion years ago. *New study claims planets grow with their host stars A new study suggests planetary formation in the Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the bui...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 125 *Lift off NASA’s Artemis-1 Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon The world’s most powerful rocket NASA’s Space Launch System has successfully blasted into orbit on its maiden flight. The spectacular nighttime launch from pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carried the Artemis-1 Orion spacecraft on the first leg of a journey that will ultimately return humans...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 124 *Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known star Astronomers have taken their best image yet of the most massive known star in the universe. *The Martian crust is more complex and evolved than previously thought A new study claims the early Martian crust may be more complex and evolved than previously thought—and may even be similar to our own planet’s ori...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 123 *Data suggests Magnetars have solid surfaces A signature in the X-ray light emitted by a highly magnetised neutron star known as a magnetar suggests the star has a solid surface with no atmosphere. *SpaceX could try launching its new starship rocket to orbit next month There’s growing speculation that SpaceX could try an orbital test flight of its new Starship super...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 122 *Mysterious cosmic radiation storms targeting the Earth Mystery continues to surround a series of strange cosmic radiation storms which have been battering the Earth at regular intervals for thousands of years. *Another delay to the Artemis 1 moon mission Hurricane Nicole has made landfall along Florida's ea...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 121 *NASA to continue with the Psyche mission despite software issues NASA has decided to go forward with its Psyche mission with a new launch window opening on October 10, 2023. *Searching for the Milky Way galaxy’s original nucleus Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the original nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy. *SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy SpaceX...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 120 *Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight years Astronomers have detected three near Earth asteroids hiding in the glare of the Sun including a one and a half kilometre wide monster which could one day pose a threat to Earth. *Planning for the historic Mars sample return mission moves forward The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scie...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 119 *Giant asteroid discovered just a day before it flew past the Earth Astronomers discovered a huge asteroid as big as a sky scraper just a day before it zoomed past the Earth. *Discovering the origins of the oldest known Martian Meteorite Scientists have located the exact point of origin of the oldest and mos...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 118 *Curiosity reaches a key target NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover finally arrived at a long sought after target on its journey to climb the red planet’s Mount Sharp. *NASA orders more Orion Spacecraft NASA has ordered three more Orion Crew capsules from Lockheed Martin for future manned missions to the Moon. *A food run to the space station A Russian Progress cargo ship h...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 117 *A major blow in the search for life on other worlds Planetary scientists have suffered a significant setback in their search for exoplanets with life – discovering an Earth like planet with no atmosphere, orbiting the most common type of star in the galaxy. *Making oxygen on Mars with MOXIE On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 160 million kilometres from Ea...