SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 116 *NASA’s Dragonfly mission to the distant world of Titan NASA have undertaken a major survey of the Saturnian moon Titan’s Selk crater region which will be one of the primary targets of the Dragonfly helicopter mission in 2034. *Crunch time for Perseverance’s search for life on the red planet NASA’s Mars Pers...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 115 *Discovery of two interstellar objects which reached the Earth Astronomers have confirmed that two meteors which burned up in Earth’s atmosphere were both alien visitors from interstellar space. *NASA’s new time lapse movie of the universe NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft has provided astronomers with a new time lapse movie of the universe showing how its evolved over the...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 114 *Over 30 thousand near Earth Asteroids now discovered Astronomers have reached a major milestone with the discovery of the thirty thousandth near Earth asteroid. *NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past the Earth NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has just undertaken a spectacular gravity assist flyby of the Earth – skimming the pl...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 113XX *Discovery of the nearest black hole to Earth Astronomers have discovered the nearest black hole to Earth. *How galaxies grow from the cosmic web A new study has found that galaxies tend to be oriented so that their spin is aligned to the nearest cosmic web filament. *Dragon returns to Earth NASA-SpaceX cr...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 112 *New evidence for liquid water beneath the Martian south polar ice cap Scientists have revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. *Fresh hints for a possible planet X in the outer solar system There are fresh hints for a possible planet X beyond Pluto in the outer solar system. *NASA targeting November 1...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 111 *Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of a black hole Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of one of the universe’s most infamous monsters – a black hole. *The largest known asteroid impact on Earth A new study suggests the largest known asteroid impact on Earth may have been even bigger than previously...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 110 *Scientists change an asteroid’s orbit. Scientists have altered the orbit of a celestial object for the first time in history. *Huge Gamma Ray Burst detected Astronomers have just detected a record-breaking Gamma Ray Burst. *TESS spacecraft placed in safe mode NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft has been p...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 109 *Something has dropped off the Mars helicopter in mid flight NASA have detected something falling off their Mars Ingenuity helicopter during its latest flight. *Testing the new SWOT satellite The new American and French Surface Water and Ocean Topography – or SWOT spacecraft has passed its final pre-flight tests and is now almost ready for its launch to space in Dec...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 108 *Stunning new images of the Jovian ice moon Europa NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed its close flyby of the Jovian ice moon Europa capturing stunning close-up images which are raising more questions than they answer. *NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Launches to International Space Station The SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance has successfully docked to the space-facing forwar...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 107 *Dimorphous grows a massive comet like impact debris tail The DART spacecraft’s impact into the asteroid Dimorphous has generated a massive comet like tail of dust and debris stretching back over ten thousand kilometres. *Another planet around Proxima Centauri The number of planets orbiting stars in the Sun’...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 106 *JUNO undertakes a Europa flyby NASA's Juno spacecraft has undertaken a close flyby of the Jovian Ice moon Europa. *Planetary-scale heat wave discovered in Jupiter's atmosphere Astronomers have detected a planetary scale heatwave sweeping across Jupiter’s atmosphere. *More Starlinks take to the air SpaceX has launched another 52 Starlink satellites into low-Earth or...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 105 *Mercury’s surface is changing rapidly A new study has found that the surface of the planet Mercury is changing rapidly. *Why it never pays to bet against Albert Einstein A new study once again proves Einstein was right -- We can absolutely rule out Newton’s law of gravity. *Missing carbon monoxide mystery A new study suggests missing amounts of carbon monoxide – a...

NASA’s DART or Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft has successfully slammed into an asteroid in what’s been described as the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration mission. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spacetime-with-stuart-gary--2458531/support .

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 103 *New and puzzling features of mysterious fast radio bursts Astronomers have detected strange never before seen signals originating from an already mysterious object called a Fast Radio Burst. *NASA's InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four asteroids that crashed on to the Martian surface in 20...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 102 *James Webb Space Telescope develops a serious technical problem NASA’s James Webb space telescope has developed a problem with a key part of its spectroscope system used to analyse to chemical composition of objects... *But that hasn’t stopped it making some spectacular observations of Mars and Neptune NASA...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 101 *Bad weather scrubs a third launch attempt for the world’s most powerful rocket In a case of déjà vu all over again as NASA has been forced to scrub a third launch attempt of its massive Artemis 1 Moon rocket – this time because of Tropical storm Ian near Jamaica which was forecast to rapidly intensify and m...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 100 *Counting down to asteroid collision NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test— or DART mission -- remains on target to crash into a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid on Monday. *Continental plate movements control Earth’s largest volcanic events A new study has found a surprising link between the slowing of continental plate movements and the timing of Earth’...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 99 *Dream Chaser space plane could be used as a rapid response military transport Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane will now begin flying cargo to the International Space Station for NASA in February 2023 instead of the 2022 launch date originally planned. *Ariane 6 launchpad testing Development and testing of the European Space Agency’s new Ariane 6 launch vehic...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 98 *Gamma rays from neighbouring galaxy related to dead stars Astronomers say that a mysterious source of high energy gamma rays discovered near the galactic centre of the Milky Way could have originated in the neighbouring Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy. *Volcanic super eruptions are millions of years in the making A...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 97 *Solar Orbiter hit by a massive Coronal Mass Ejection Earlier this month as The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter undertook its third flyby of the planet Venus it was hit by a massive coronal mass ejection blasting out from the Sun. *Mars dryness runs deep A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed that the mission’s equatorial l...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 96 *Four-billion-year-old planetary crust found under Western Australia Scientists have identified a four-billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust the size of Ireland underneath what is now Western Australia. *The origins of Earth’s water It was revealed this year that Earth’ received its life-giving water du...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 95 *DART on track for asteroid impact Later this month NASA’s Dart mission will slam into a tiny near-Earth asteroid orbiting a slightly larger Near-Earth asteroid to see what happens. *NASA now looking at a potential Artemis 1 launch this month NASA says it could target potential launch windows on September 23r...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 94 *The Perseverance rover finds the sands of Mars are green as well as red The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. But NASA’s Perseverance rover has found lots of olivine. *New planetary nebulae discovery Astronomers have confirmed a large and evolved planetary nebula 4500 light years away in the Messier 37 open star cluster in the...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 93 *Europe’s EnVision spacecraft to surf Venus’s atmosphere The European Space Agency’s EnVision mission to Venus being developed to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies of Earth’s so called sister planet. *NASA fixes the glitch on the Voyager 1 spacecraft – mankind’s most distant traveller NASA engineers have fixed a critical system aboard the...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 92 *NASA postpones future Artemis 1 launch attempts following another scrub NASA has decided to postpone any future launch attempts for the Artemis 1 mission this month after they were forced to again scrub the flight because of a persistent hydrogen propellant leak. *James Webb’s first image of a distant world...