Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Astronomy Daily · S05E153 · Wednesday 29 July 2026. Four stories from the frontier of space and astronomy, plus a both-hemispheres look at the sky — and news of our brand-new website. In this episode ...

Astronomy Daily S05E152 — “Reading the Heat” · Tuesday 28 July 2026. Hosts Anna & Avery. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has taken the first-ever temperature reading beneath the surface of Io, Jupiter’s volcan...

Tonight the Solar System’s most argued-about little world has its brightest night of the year — so we go deep on Pluto: how a Kansas farm boy found it in 1930, why it got “demoted” in 2006, why that f...

After a T-0 abort and a weather scrub, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 finally flew on 24 July — and stuck its softest ocean splashdown yet, while deploying the first-ever real Starlink V3 satellites. On ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first moon-like object outside our solar system — and it has broken the rulebook. A Jupiter-mass world orbits a brown dwarf, which in turn orbits a red dwarf star sevent...

Starship gets a second attempt at Flight 13 — though the schedule may not hold. The first samples ever returned from the far side of the Moon show that Earth has been shielding the near side from the ...