Astronomy Daily: Space News

Astronomy Daily: Space News

Daily Space, Astronomy, & Science News Podcast

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A Planet Vanishes from View: Uranus’ Shifting Fields, Meerkat’s Hydrogen Map...
Astronomy Daily: Space News November 12, 202600:22:32

A Planet Vanishes from View: Uranus’ Shifting Fields, Meerkat’s Hydrogen Map...

Show notes A hot Jupiter called TOI-2535 b has become the first planet around a single star seen to stop transiting, tipped out of line by an unseen neighbour. Plus: why Uranus and Neptune have scramb...

Curiosity’s Spare Rover Heads to the Moon: Gravity Reconnection, Record-Cold Atoms...
Astronomy Daily: Space News November 10, 202600:19:48

Curiosity’s Spare Rover Heads to the Moon: Gravity Reconnection, Record-Cold Atoms...

Show notes NASA turns Curiosity's spare test-bed rover into PROMISE, a nuclear-powered rover bound for the Moon's south pole, as part of a sweep of Moon Base awards. Plus: a theory of 'gravitational r...

Mars May Still Be Breathing: Alba Mons’ Mysterious Gas and Swift’s Final Plunge
Astronomy Daily: Space News November 08, 202600:21:15

Mars May Still Be Breathing: Alba Mons’ Mysterious Gas and Swift’s Final Plunge

Is Mars still volcanically alive? Europe's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter keeps catching hydrogen chloride, a gas that comes out of volcanoes on Earth, above fresh cracks on the giant Alba Mons volcano, in...

Webb’s Early-Universe Puzzle: A Radio First, New Glenn Hardware and Earth’s New Mini Moon
Astronomy Daily: Space News November 07, 202600:18:58

Webb’s Early-Universe Puzzle: A Radio First, New Glenn Hardware and Earth’s New Mini Moon

Show notes Light from newborn stars may have blown the fog out of the early universe. A new study by Shyam Menon (Flatiron Institute, ANU PhD) and Aaron Smith (UT Dallas) finds that Lyman-alpha radiat...

Webb’s Digital Twin: A Hidden Planet, Ancient Stars and China’s Moon Plan
Astronomy Daily: Space News November 06, 202600:21:05

Webb’s Digital Twin: A Hidden Planet, Ancient Stars and China’s Moon Plan

Show notes A Northwestern-led team builds a physics-based digital twin of the James Webb Space Telescope's coronagraph and recovers the giant planet 51 Eridani b in two-year-old data where standard pr...

Escapade’s Double Slingshot: Mars-Bound Probes, Missing Oxygen and Black Holes in Pants
Astronomy Daily: Space News November 05, 202600:23:00

Escapade’s Double Slingshot: Mars-Bound Probes, Missing Oxygen and Black Holes in Pants

Show notes ESCAPADE's double slingshot over Australia NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, Blue and Gold, will each fly a powered Earth flyby on their way to Mars: the first around 5 a.m. EST on Saturday ...