SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 112 *Three Big Marsquakes rock the red planet NASA’s InSight lander has recorded a massive magnitude 4.2 Marsquake on the red planet which shook the spacecraft for nearly an hour-and-a-half. *NASA’s Mars fleet moves into solar conjunction Planet Earth’s invasion of Mars has hit the pause button as the red planet...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 111 *Have scientists detected dark energy A new study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and reported in the journal Physical Review D, suggests that some unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment in Italy may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment was desig...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 110 *A landing site chosen for NASA’s new VIPER lunar rover NASA has selected the western edge of Nobile Crater at the Moon's South Pole as the landing site for its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER mission slated to launch in 2023. *Was Mars too small to retain water New research suggests...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 109 *Super volcanoes discovered on Mars Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions,” the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year period. *Uncovering the secret mushballs of Neptune and Uranus Mushballs – giant, slushy h...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 108 *Time for a revision for the Milky Way galaxy’s formation Scientists will need to rethink how the Milky Way galaxy formed and evolved after new observations showed the galaxy’s gases aren’t homogeneously mixed – as originally thought. *NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ready for launch After successful compl...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 107 *The Perseverance rover collects a second sample of Martian history NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the Jezero Crater region of the red planet. *ExoMars 2020 on track for launch a year from now Well, it...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 106 *A new look at planet changing super volcanos A new study warns that super volcano eruptions can continue with follow up events for thousands of years after the main blast. *Work underway on the Moon capsule Work is now underway at Lockheed Martin on the Orion spacecraft that will be used on the Artemis III...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 105 *Astronauts smell smoke and burning on Russian Space Station module There have been more problems aboard the Russian section of the International Space Station with the smell of burning plastic triggering a smoke alarm in the Zvezda service module. *NASA set to extend the life of the Mars Ingenuity helicopte...

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The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 103 *First evidence for a new type of supernova Astronomers have gathered evidence of what appears to be a new type of supernova. *Cosmic filament discovery supports Lambda Cold Dark Matter hypothesis Astronomers have discovered the longest intergalactic filament ever seen. The discovery strongly supports the La...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 102 *Perseverance collects its first samples of the red planet It was a case of second time lucky as NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover successfully collected a sample of red planet rock for the first time. *Curiosity celebrates nine years on Mars NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has just drilled its 32nd hole into the s...

SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 101 *A new study of stellar streams in the Milky Way A new study of 23 stellar streams in the Milky Way galaxy suggest that the vast majority originated in other galaxies. *The weird, metallic star hurtling out of the Milky Way Astronomers have spotted a remnant fragment of a white dwarf star being flung out of the galaxy. *More cracks in the Russian part of the space s...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 100 *Possible detection of a new type of gravitational wave Scientists using a ground-breaking new high frequency gravitational wave detector have made two possible detections which are sparking a lot of excitement. *A break discovered in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms Astronomers have discovered what appear...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 99 *Space junk destroys satellite It now looks like space junk from a 1996 Russian rocket may be behind the destruction of China’s Yunhai 1-02 weather satellite earlier this year. *More delays could push Starliner’s launch to next year The long awaited second orbital test flight of Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner...

For more SpaceTime and show links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ Your support is needed... SpaceTime is an independently produced podcast (we are not funded by any government grants, big organisations or companies), and we’re working towards becoming a completely listener supported show...meaning we can do away with the commercials and sponsors. We figure the time can be much better spent on research...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 97 *New observations say Saturn’s core is fuzzy A new study has concluded that Saturn’s core is a fuzzy diffuse soup of ice, rock, and metallic fluids rather than a solid ball of rock. *Extraterrestrial radioactive isotopes discovered on Earth Scientists are needing to rethink the possible origin of some of the...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 96 *Red Dwarfs less harmful to exoplanets than previously thought A new study suggests planets orbiting around red dwarf stars may be more habitable than previously thought. *Space Station mishap worse than thought Mission managers at NASA have revealed that the Russian module malfunction which sent the Internat...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 95 *Odds of Bennu hitting the Earth get worse A new study suggests the hazardous Near Earth Asteroid Bennu now has a one in 1,750 chance of slamming into the Earth between now the year 2300. *Countdown to the Europa clipper mission NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to the Jovian ice moon Europa may find evidence tha...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 94 *Mars rover comes up empty after first sample collection attempt NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover mission managers are working out what to do next after their first attempt to collect a rock and regolith drill sample failed to get anything in to the sample tube. *Earliest moments of supernova explosion captured...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 93 *Software failure blamed for loss of space station control The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has blamed software issues for the sudden thruster burn aboard Russia’s new Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module which sent the space station out of control for 47 minutes. *Neutron Star Mountains New models...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 92 *Shortest ever Gamma Ray Burst Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever gamma-ray burst. The huge blast identified as GRB 200826A was caused by the supernova implosion of a massive star in a distant galaxy – emitted 14 million times the energy released by the entire Milky Way galaxy in the space of just...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 91 *Astronomers zero in on source of the impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs A new study claims the impactor believed to have wiped out and 75 percent of all life on Earth 66 million years ago including all the non-avian dinosaurs -- likely came from the outer half of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Ju...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 90 *Ingenuity scopes out the road ahead on Mars Scientists studying NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter’s ninth flight have revealed a spectacular landscape of dunes and ancient rocky outcrops spread across the dried river delta and lakebed of Jezero Crater. *Dark matter slowing the spin of the Milky Way's central...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 89 *New map of the Milky Way’s halo Astronomers have developed a new map of the galactic halo – the outermost region of our Milky Way galaxy. *Mars Perseverance Rover ready to collect its first samples NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has laid the groundwork for the mission’s next major milestone – collecting its...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 88 *High drama aboard the International Space Station The International Space Station is now stable again after Russia’s new Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module suddenly started firing its thrusters -- briefly sending the orbiting outpost out of control. *Discovery of a molten core in Mars New data from NASA’s...