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The Planet That Keeps Shrinking plus the Weekend Wrap
Today's episode β The Weekend Wrap, Saturday 12 September 2026: OUR LEAD: A SMALLER MERCURY Mercury has been contracting for four and a half billion years as its huge iron core cools, and it writes th...
Half the Neutron Stars
Today's episode β S05E191, Friday September 11, 2026: Main story: A population-synthesis study published in Nature Astronomy on 10 September argues that magnetars make up roughly half of all neutron s...
A Hundred and Nine Flashes
Today's episode β S05E190, Thursday September 10, 2026: Main story: 109 fast radio bursts have been used to measure how much galactic feedback has smoothed out the matter in the universe. A fast radio...
The Smallest Things Remember
Everything beyond Neptune is a leftover. The icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt never got assembled into a planet, and out there β dark, cold and empty enough that things mostly leave each other alone β th...
The Moon in Five Hours
For fifty years the story has been that the Moon assembled slowly out of a disc of debris. New simulations from Southwest Research Institute add one thing everybody left out β the strength of rock β a...
Europe Launches From Europe β And Two White Dwarfs Six Minutes Apart
A German rocket lifted off from an Arctic island on Saturday and became the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from Western European soil. Plus: the gaps in stellar streams may not be dark matter after...