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Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates
Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Nuclear Power in Space, Planetary Defense Insights, and an Aurora Alert for Northern Skies
Today on Astronomy Daily: SpaceX's Transporter-17 mission carried the world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite payload to orbit. New Zealand's Zenno Astronautics tested a thruster th...
Beach Mystery, Asteroid Close Encounter, and the Cosmic Dance of Ancient Comets
🚀 Astronomy Daily S05E134 — Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Mystery space debris on a Queensland beach, Hayabusa2's close encounter with asteroid Torifune, ancient secrets from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, TES...
Asteroid Flybys, Cosmic Mysteries, and the Search for the Universe's Ghost Signals
Today on Astronomy Daily: Japan's Hayabusa2 pulls off a nail-biting high-speed asteroid flyby, James Webb finds the same unexplained chemical mystery on Titan AND Pluto, a neutrino detector may have c...
Cosmic Fireworks, Mars Meets Uranus, and the Dawn of a New Era in Astronomy
Astronomy Daily S05E132 — Weekend Space and Astronomy News Wrap — Today's Space News It's the July 4th long weekend edition! Anna and Avery bring you the four biggest space stories of the past five da...
G2 Geomagnetic Storm + Mission Failure: What's Happening in Space Right Now?
Astronomy Daily S05E131 — Swift Rescue Grounded Mid-Flight, Solar Storm Watch, and a Planet That Outlived Its Star | Today's Space News It's Friday, July 3, 2026, and the universe didn't take the day ...
This Hot Jupiter Has Scientists Baffled | Geomagnetic Storm Incoming
🚀 Astronomy Daily — Today's Space News | S05E130 | July 2, 2026 Swift's rescue mission scrubs again, a solar flare sets up aurora chances for July 4th weekend, a hot Jupiter breaks the tidal-locking ...