Universe Today Podcast

JUICE launches to Jupiter and its moons. A new JWST image of supernova remenant Cassiopea A. Machine learning cleans up the Universe, and improves images of a black hole’s event horizon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:17 JUICE Launch to Jupiter 02:13 JWST's view of Cassiopea A https://www.universetoday.com/160883/its-time-for-supernova-remnant-cassiopeia...

Active volcanism. Plate tectonics. Retaining the atmosphere without a magnetosphere. There's so much to learn about Venus! In this interview I'm discussing all these things with Dr Paul Byrne, Planetary Evangelist and Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis 🐥 Professor Paul Byrne on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy 🦄 Support us on Patr...

What are the risks of returning samples from Mars? What happens if you bring two stars together? Which galaxies can be seen with the naked eye? What is the system behind naming stars and exoplanets? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:19 [Tatooine] Can we bring viruses from Mars? 07:42 [Coruscant] What is the maximum...

What are Fast Radio Bursts? Did we get a step closer to answering this question by associating some of them with a Kilonova event? What Cosmology questions can we solve by studying FRBs? Discussing all these things with Dr Clancy James from Curtin University. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:41 Second Kilonova event 03:37 FRB connection to neutron star col...

Meet the crew of Artemis 2, we might have the perfect date for a Mars mission, and astronomers discover an ultramassive black hole. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:14 Meet the Crew of Artemis-2 https://www.universetoday.com/160806/meet-astronauts-fly-around-moon-artemis-ii/ 02:14 A Perfect Year to Go To Mars https://www.universetoday.com/160753/2033-is-th...

There's an effect called photophoretic propulsion. You could have seen it in a Crookes radiometer. One of the NIAC awards of 2023 was granted to a team that hopes to use this effect to develop a propulsion system. This can allow flying in altitudes nothing else can fly and possibly even explore other worlds. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the NIAC grant:...

How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet? 03:51 [Coruscant] How complex...

We finally got JWST data about TRAPPIST-1. An Earth-sized rogue planet was found. More information about China’s plans for the Moon. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:13 JWST reveals Trappist-1 data https://www.universetoday.com/160716/finally-jwsts-data-on-the-first-trappist-1-planet-survey-says-it-sucks/ 02:02 Kazakhstan Seizes Russia’s Facility at Baikon...

The United Arab Emirates are making good progress in space exploration. Their Hope mission is orbiting Mars since 2021. Their Rashid rover is on its way to the Moon. They are also planning a mission to the Asteroid belt. In this interview, I'm discussing UAE's current progress as well as future missions with Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Director of the Space Missions Department at UAE Space Agency. 🦄 S...

In this interview, I'm talking with Theresa Benyo and Lawrence Forsley from NASA. They are authors of a Lattice Confinement Fusion Reactor that got a NIAC award this year. A reactor like this could help us melt through the ice on Europa and Enceladus and have other interesting applications in space missions. The extended version also includes additional questions from Matt Williams: https://youtu....

Why don't we send microscopes on space probes to search for life? How do black holes even form? Can Chat GPT or similar systems help Astronomy? How will we use Starship when it starts to fly? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:04 [Tatooine] How can black holes even exist? 04:43 [Coruscant] How to dock to a spinning space station? 08:12 [Hoth] Why not send mi...

We know about thousands of exoplanets by now. But it's still a mystery, whether there are planets in the Alpha Centauri binary system, which is just next door to us. My guest today, Professor Peter Tuthill, is the Mission Leader for the TOLIMAN Telescope mission, which is designed to find those answers. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:29 Are there planets...

iSpace reaches the Moon, Relativity Space’s 3D printed rocket fails to reach orbit, a mission will search for habitable worlds at Alpha Centauri. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday ☄️ EARLY ACCESS: Searching for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN Mission https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/811359865 👉 NIAC 2023 Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...

There are radio wavelengths that we can't see from Earth. And to observe them from space, we need a truly huge telescope. Mary Knapp and her team proposed a project that can allow us to build such a telescope and they just recently got a NIAC grant for it. 👉 More about the NIAC award: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Great_Observatory_for_Long_Wavelengths/ 🦄 Support us on Pa...

Scientists came up with a method to produce concrete on the Moon and Mars using potato starch. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Aled Roberts, who is the Principle Investigator of this research. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:06 Building materials from biomaterials 07:06 Challenges of building on the Moon and Mars 10:20 From human blood to potato st...

Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space? What will JWST see next? Can red or brown dwarfs be the source of dark matter? Should SpaceX just be the only launch service for the USA so they can save money? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:51 [Tatooine] Can we build star-tram-like launch facilities in space? 09:34 [Coruscant] Can red or brown dwa...

James Webb recently found six examples of galaxies that are too big too early. This discovery can significantly change our understanding of the early Universe. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Joel Leja, who is a part of the team behind the research. 👉 More about the discovery: https://www.universetoday.com/160243/six-galaxies-that-are-too-big-too-early/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://pa...

Venus has active volcanoes, we get a glimpse of NASA’s new lunar exploration suits, and scientists build a completely flat telescope lens. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:13 Active Volcano Found On Venus https://www.universetoday.com/160579/potentially-active-volcanoes-have-been-found-on-venus/ 02:56 Vulcan Is No More https://www.universetoday.com/160579/...

In this interview, I'm talking with Heidi Newberg. Her team won a NIAC grant that will investigate building a telescope that will be hunting for Earth-like worlds. The project is called DICER, which stands for Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🌌 Milky Way @ home: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ 👉 More about the...

How does Venus hold its atmosphere without a magnetosphere? Is the Sun moving to the Milky Way's centre? What happens when the space elevator cable snaps? Can we solve the Hubble Tension? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:47 [Tatooine] How does Venus hold its atmosphere without a magnetosphere? 03:58 [Coruscant] Whi...

Can there be habitable planets orbiting around red dwarfs? My guest, Mariano Battistuzzi, performed experiments to check it! So, can life survive in the conditions created by red dwarf stars? Let's find out in this interview. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:55 How bad are red dwarfs for life 04:20 Experiments to test habitability 13:10 Potential ecosystem...

The official verdict on Artemis 1. Canadian kids discovered something NASA didn’t know. Was there a Dark Big Bang? The next bright comet for 2024. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:11 SLS Good For Humans. Artemis 2 in 2024 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/analysis-confirms-successful-artemis-i-moon-mission-reviews-continue 02:23 Canadian Kids Discover Things Ab...

Making habitats from available materials will be a big part of Mars missions. One of the 2023 NIAC awards explored the possibility of growing structures on Mars with the help of fungi and bacteria. We're discussing this project with Dr Congrui Jin. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the NIAC award: https://www.universetoday.com/159635/instead-of-building-stru...

How long can a modern spacecraft last on Venus? How to develop electronics, batteries and other things that can survive these harsh conditions? What could the lifespan of such a mission be? We discuss all that with Dr Tibor Kremic from NASA Glenn Research Center. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:17 How bad Venus really is 03:27 What it takes to last on Ven...

How many stars did our radio signals reach? How to visualize the expansion of the Universe? Can we save the Earth from the Sun's red giant phase? How can we tell that an object has interstellar origin? All this and more in this week's Q&A! 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 01:02 [Tatooine] If the Sun is white, are sunspots really black? 05:19 [Coruscant] H...