SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 87 *Small impacts churning up Europa’s surface A new study claims small comet and meteoroid impacts on the Jovian ice moon Europa will make the search for any evidence of the signs of life beyond Earth far more difficult. *ExoMars fails to detect any Martian biomarkers The joint European Space Agency Roscosmos E...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 86 *Climate change on Mars NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been studying geologic evidence of massive ancient climate change on the red planet. *Heavy metal found in comets Astronomers have discovered iron and nickel in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System, even those far from the Sun. *India te...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 85 *Australia’s Interstellar laser propulsion system Scientists with the Australian National University have designed a new laser powered propulsion system as part of the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project to send a fleet of light sail spacecraft to explore the worlds of Alpha Centauri our nearest neighbour...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 84 *Claims the Toba volcanic eruption disrupted climate but not human evolution A new study claims the biggest volcanic eruption in human history – Indonesia’s Toba eruption 74,000 years ago -- likely caused severe climate disruption but didn’t affect human evolution as much as thought. *Why Comet Halley was a d...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 83 *Discovery of four Earth-sized rogue planets all alone in the night A new study has found tantalising evidence for a mysterious population of “free-floating” so-called rogue planets -- planets that aren’t orbiting a host star. *Cosmic filaments spinning in space A new study has confirmed that the filaments wh...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 82 *New type of ancient massive explosion explains mystery star A massive explosion ten times more powerful than a supernova - known as a magneto-rotational hypernova -- could provide the power to produce one of the most mysterious stars in the galaxy. *The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a snack Astrono...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 81 *The mystery of the Martian south pole Scientists taking another look at data from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter have had a rethink about what they’re seeing under the Martian south pole. *Mars helicopter most challenging flight yet NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter has successfully complete...

SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 80 *Could mystery methane plumes discovered on Enceladus be a sign of life A new study suggests that methane detected on the Saturnian ice moon Enceladus could be a sign of life. *Plate tectonics on Venus Astronomers may have finally detected evidence of plate tectonics on Venus. *Earth hit by powerful X class solar flare The Sun has emitted its first X-class solar flar...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 79 *Discovery of a White Dwarf so massive it might collapse Astronomers have discovered the most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smouldering cinder, which formed when two smaller white dwarfs merged, is packing a mass greater than that of our Sun squeezed into an object about the size of our Moon. *A new hypo...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 78 *Looking back to the cosmic dawn A new study claims the first stars began shining between 250 and 350 million years after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. *Hubble still off line as technicians struggle to fix it The Hubble Space Telescope remains off line following a major onboard computer crash last month...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 77 *The Earth has a cycle of geological activity A new study claims geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a pulse. *New studies suggest Asteroid Psyche isn’t what scientists are expecting The widely studied metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche was long thought t...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 76 *National Intelligence UFO Report inconclusive Those American military UFO sightings are no closer to resolution with the official congressional intelligence report by the Pentagon failing to provide an explanation for most of the sightings. View Full Report: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a6t0t7fk7d6qsfw/Prelimary...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 75 *A possible link between the Sun’s solar cycle and La Nina weather patterns A new study shows a correlation between the end of the Sun’s 11 year solar cycle and a switch from El Nino to La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean. *Betelgeuse’s great dimming A new study has confirmed that the mysterious sudden di...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 74 *Are supermassive black holes collapsed dark matter halos A new study suggests that supermassive black holes could be formed out of the collapse of dark matter halos. *Sentinel’s ocean data starts flowing After six months of check-out and calibration in orbit, the Sentinel-6A spacecraft has started providing i...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 73 *Hubble computer crash NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has dropped into safe mode following a major onboard computer crash. *Southern Launch gets approval for its South Australian orbital launch complex Southern Launch’s new Whaler’s Way orbital launch complex is a step closer to fruition with formal approval n...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 72 *A third mission bound for Venus The European Space agency has announced a new mission to study Venus. The EnVision orbiter will launch in the early 2030s to study Venus from its upper atmosphere down to its core o determine how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently. *Mars Perseverance rover on the mo...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 71 *Another step in understanding the difference between matter and antimatter Physicists using the world’s largest atom smasher the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have for the first time measured a difference in mass between matter and antimatter. *Volcanic activity on Venus An international team of researchers...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 70 *An update on those US Navy Tic Tac UFOs Last year the US Department of Defence formally released three navy videos showing encounters between US NAVY fighter jets and a series of unexplained aerial phenomena – what most people call UFOs. Since then, more similar vision has been made public by crew aboard two...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 69 *No plate tectonics on Venus A new study claims Venus hasn’t had plate tectonics for at least 300 million and possibly more than a billion years. *First X-rays from Uranus Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time. *Searching for the signatures of life on other worlds Astronomers already...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 68 *Rosetta Stone eruption could help explain solar explosions A dramatic, multi-staged eruption on the Sun has revealed new clues that could help scientists solve the long-standing mystery of what causes the Sun’s powerful and unpredictable explosions. *Juno’s close encounter with Ganymede NASA’s Juno spacecraft...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 67 *Abbot Point selected for orbital launch facility Abbot Point on the North Queensland coast has been selected to host Gilmour Space Technologies new orbital launch complex. *Is Earth's core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet's interior A new study claims the Earth’s solid inner core is solidifying faste...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 66 *A new study of the distant Oort cloud Astronomers have undertaken a new analysis of the Oort cloud – the sphere of some 100 billion comets and chunks of icy debris in interstellar space which is gravitationally bound to the Sun. *Heavy metals found in comets for the first time Two separate studies have found...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 65 *Space junk collides with space station The International Space Station has been stuck by a piece of space debris which has left a hole in a section of the orbiting outpost’s robotic arm. *The Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution The dark energy survey has released its first three years of data includ...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 64 *Two new missions to study Venus NASA has selected two new missions to explore the planet Venus. The missions known as DAVINCI+ and VERITAS will help scientists better understand how Venus became the nearest thing to hell in our solar system. *Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder’s first glimpse of the...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 63 *Jovian ice moon Europa could have Seafloor Volcanoes New research shows volcanic activity may have occurred on the seafloor of Jupiter’s ice moon Europa in the recent past – and may still be happening today. *NASA launches high altitude plasma experiment NASA has launched a sounding rocket on a mission the be...