Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley

Are We Missing Alien Signals? Space Weather, Brain Changes and the Mars Life Question

Are We Missing Alien Signals? Space Weather, Brain Changes and the Mars Life Question

Are we missing alien signals because of cosmic interference? Has spaceflight been quietly rearranging astronauts' brains? And did life on Earth actually start on Mars? We cover all of this and more in...

🚀 DART MOVED AN ASTEROID'S SOLAR ORBIT — Plus 5 More Stories | Astronomy Daily S05E57

🚀 DART MOVED AN ASTEROID'S SOLAR ORBIT — Plus 5 More Stories | Astronomy Daily S05E57

Today's space news is packed: scientists confirm that NASA's DART spacecraft didn't just change how Dimorphos orbits Didymos — it shifted the entire binary asteroid system's orbit around the Sun. A fi...

Moon Safe! Asteroid Threat Ends + Cosmic Laser Record + Solar Storm Hits Mars

Moon Safe! Asteroid Threat Ends + Cosmic Laser Record + Solar Storm Hits Mars

The Moon is officially safe from asteroid 2024 YR4 🌑 — NASA has confirmed the 'city killer' will miss by 13,200 miles. Plus: a cosmic laser detected 8 billion light-years away, a solar superstorm cau...

Auroras on Ganymede, Superflare Warnings and Japan’s Very Bad Week

Auroras on Ganymede, Superflare Warnings and Japan’s Very Bad Week

Part of the Bitesz.com Podcast Network | New episode every day Today on Astronomy Daily, we discuss the mesmerizing auroras on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which bear a striking resemblance to Earth's own...

Blood Moon Finale, Artemis Confirmed, The Tightest Star System Ever Found

Blood Moon Finale, Artemis Confirmed, The Tightest Star System Ever Found

Last night's Blood Moon was the most stunning celestial event of 2026 so far — and that's just where we start. In this episode of Astronomy Daily, Anna and Avery bring you the full lunar eclipse recap...

Webb Telescope's Strangest Discovery Yet

Webb Telescope's Strangest Discovery Yet

NASA has officially confirmed that Artemis 3 will NOT land on the Moon — and SpaceX’s Starship may not even fly on the mission. Plus: the Webb telescope finds a planet shaped like a LEMON orbiting a d...