SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

Welcome to a sampler edition of our new Astronomy & Space Science News podcast, Astronomy Daily - the Podcast. Hosted by Andrew Dunkley (one half of the Space Nuts podcast) and his feisty AI Assistant/Newsreader Hailley. Each day Andrew and Hailley bring you a roundup of the day's developments in the rapidly changing world of Space Science and Astronomy, from stories featured in the Astronomy Dail...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 91 *Was there a second dinosaur killing asteroid impact Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in the North Atlantic Ocean which may have hit Earth at the same time as the infamous dinosaur killing KT boundary event Chicxulub asteroid. *A close up look at black hole jets Astronomers have bee...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 90 *The red supergiant Betelgeuse blows it top Astronomers say the sudden dimming of the semi-regular variable red supergiant star Betelgeuse back in 2019 and 2020 was caused by it blowing away a massive chunk of its stellar surface. *Could Earth’s continents have come from outer space? A new study suggests Eart...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 89 *The ongoing search for Dark Matter Scientists have placed new limits on where the mysterious invisible substance known as dark matter could be hiding. *Another win for Modified Newtonian dynamics over dark matter Astronomers have unexpectedly found strong evidence supporting Modified Newtonian dynamics or MO...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 88 *New record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen Astronomers have just set another new record for the most distant and earliest galaxy ever seen – a stellar city dating back to just 250 million years after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. *Earth sets its own new record for the shortest day e...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 87 *NASA to send two more choppers to Mars for sample return mission. NASA says its Mars Ingenuity helicopter has been so successful, two more will be built and sent to the red planet to help with the planned sample return mission. *Top Secret Space Shuttle sets a record The clandestine X-37B space shuttle has shattered its own orbital mission duration record of 780 day...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 86 *Another Russian promise to leave the International Space Station Russia have again announced plans to quit the International Space Station sometime after 2024. *ExoMars launch date moved to 2028 The European Space Agency’s EXO-Mars mission to search for signs of past or present life on the red planet – which was to launch in a few weeks’ time -- is now likely to fly...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 85 *Has James Webb already found some of the earliest galaxies in the universe? Astronomers are speculating that NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope may have already discovered the most distant and hence earliest galaxy in the universe. *New telescopes to see gravitational wave sources Australia is about to ge...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 84 *New studies suggest you’ll need to dig deep to find life on Mars A new study has confirmed that future Mars rovers will need to drill at least two metres below the red planet’s surface to find any evidence of ancient Martian life – if it ever existed. *Mars Helicopter grounded by sensor glitch NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been grounded after suffering a sens...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 83 *Three new particles discovered at CERN The international LHCb collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has discovered three never-before-seen subatomic particles. *The new telescope to test competing theories of Dark Energy Simulated tests of the ultra-deep field galaxy survey observations expected from NASA upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope mission ha...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 82 *A launch date set for NASA’s Artemis-1 mission to the Moon NASA is looking at August 29 as the potential launch date for the maiden flight of the massive SLS Moon rocket on Artemis-1. *Warnings about the DART asteroid impact mission A new study warns that NASA’s planned DART mission could leave its target asteroid badly deformed. *Counting down to the death of a red...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 81 *The ultimate fate of a star shredded by a black hole Astronomers studying the destruction of a star by a black hole have unraveled another mystery in how stars are torn apart by these dark monsters. *NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector A new NASA science package to attach to the International Space Station will monitory how dusty the Earth is – and how that affects the...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 80 *NASA’s Curiosity rover goes into emergency safe mode on Mars NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover have suddenly gone into emergency safe mode on the red planet following unusual temperature spikes were detected by a key instrument control unit. *Claims the Earth’s mantle had two different compositions A new study claims the Earth’s mantle had very different composition early...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 25 Episode 79 *James Webb reveals its spectacular first images The first images from the new James Webb Space Telescope have stunned the world with their spectacular beauty and clarity. *Russia officially kicked off the ExoMars mission over Ukraine The European Space Agency has officially terminated cooper...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 78 *Discovery of the fastest known star Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in the Milky Way orbiting Sagittarius A* the Supermassive black hole at the galactic centre in just four Earth years. *Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can “live” outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertai...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 77 *Curiosity finds organic material on Mars comparable with some parts of Earth Scientists measuring the total organic carbon - a key component in the molecules of life - in Martian rocks for the first time have found levels comparable with some location on Earth. *All systems go for NASA’s Viper lunar rover mission NASA are planning to land a lunar rover on the Moon’s...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 76 *The Dark Side of the Universe might not be all that dark after all The accelerating expansion of the universe due to a mysterious quantity called “dark energy” may not be real, according to ongoing research claiming it might simply be an artefact caused by the physical structure of the cosmos. *CAPSTONE moon...

SpaceTime 20220708 Series 25 Episode 75 *Martian meteorite upsets planet formation theory A new study of an old Martian meteorite is contradicting current ideas of planetary formation. *Another six space tourist kiss the edge of space aboard New Shepard Blue Origin has undertaken its fifth manned space tourism flight. *First Ariane 5 launch for 2022 The European Space Agency has undertaken its fir...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 74 *NASA announces launch delay for Its Psyche asteroid mission NASA has scrubbed the launch of its long-awaited mission to the strange metallic rich asteroid 16 Psyche because of on-going flight software issues. *New Zealand’s first lunar mission blasts off Rocket Lab has launched – CAPSTONE -- its first lunar spacecraft for NASA. *Iran carries out another ballistic mi...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 73 *Discovery of the most powerful pulsar in the distant universe Astronomers have discovered one of the youngest and most powerful neutron star pulsars ever seen. *NASA returns to Australian skies for a series of space flights NASA has undertaken its first launch from a privately operated commercial launch pad...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 72 *A close encounter with the planet Mercury The BepiColombo spacecraft has just undertaken its second close flyby of the planet Mercury. *Parker Solar Probe Completes 12th Perihelion NASA’s Parker Solar probe has just completed its 12th perihelion flying to within eight and a half million kilometres of the Sun’s surface. *Work begins on a new European tracking station...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 71 *Dead star caught ripping up its planetary system Astronomers have been given a sobering glimpse of the ultimate fate of planet Earth as they watched a Sun like star at the end of its life rip its planetary system apart. *New evidence on long standing water on ancient Mars A new study suggests that Mars may have retained a significant amount of water until far more r...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 70 *Monster black hole discovery Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that’s consuming as much mass as the planet Earth every second. *Discovery of a possible new fundamental particle – maybe even dark matter There’s growing evidence today of the possible existence of a new yet to be confirmed f...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 69 *Detecting invisible monsters floating unseen in space Astronomers may have discovered the first free-floating black hole in the Milky Way galaxy – an invisible monster devouring anything that gets too close. *NASA loses two hurricane monitoring satellites during launch Two small NASA satellites designed to study hurricane development have been destroyed after their...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 68 *A treasure trove of galactic information in GAIA’s long awaited third data release The European Space Agency has finally published the long awaited GAIA mission third data release. The findings represent the most detailed survey so far of our home galaxy the Milky Way. *Europe approves a new Comet Interceptor Mission The European Space Agency has approved a new miss...