Snoozy Space

The Strange Moon Where Night Lasts 42 Years: Oberon

Tonight on Snoozy Space, we travel to one of the most mysterious moons in the outer Solar System: Oberon, the largest moon of Uranus. At first glance, Oberon looks like

The Nuclear Reaction Keeping Pluto's Ocean Alive

What if one of the coldest worlds in the solar system is hiding an ocean beneath its frozen surface? 🌌 Pluto lies about 3.67 billion miles from the Sun, where sunlight i

What Really Happened to the Chimp We Sent Into Space?

What really happened to the chimpanzee NASA sent into space? On January 31, 1961, a 3.5-year-old chimpanzee named Ham was launched aboard Mercury-Redstone 2 in one of th

The Asteroid That Should Have Been a Planet: Vesta

What if an asteroid was once on its way to becoming a planet? Meet Vesta, one of the most remarkable worlds in the asteroid belt. At roughly 530 km (330 miles) across, V

The Cosmic Objects Far Stranger Than Black Holes

What if black holes aren't actually the strangest objects in the universe? In this episode of Snoozy Space, we travel through some of the most extreme, mysterious, and s

The Nearby Planet That Could Be Better Than Earth: Ross 128 b

Ross 128 b may be one of the most intriguing nearby planets beyond our Solar System. 🌌 Located just 11 light-years away, this rocky exoplanet orbits Ross 128, a small red

Why Living on the Moon Would Be a Nightmare

What would it really be like to live on the Moon? 🌕 Reaching the lunar surface is one thing. Staying there is something entirely different. In this episode of Snoozy Sp

The Mysterious Planet That Vanished Without a Trace: Fomalhaut b

What if one of the most famous photographs in exoplanet history captured something that was never a planet at all? 🌌 In 2008, astronomers announced Fomalhaut b as a grou

The Hell Planet Where a Year Lasts 18 Hours 55: Cancri e

What would a world look like if a year lasted only 17 hours and 41 minutes? Meet 55 Cancri e, a scorching super-Earth orbiting incredibly close to its star, 55 Cancri A,

What Really Killed Mars?

Mars looks like a dead world today. Cold, dry, and wrapped in an atmosphere barely strong enough to support liquid water. But billions of years ago, Mars was remarkably d

The Most Important Planet Ever Discovered: Osiris

What happens when a Jupiter-sized planet ventures far too close to its star? In this long-form Snoozy Space documentary, we journey to Osiris, the extraordinary exoplane

Why Space Gets Deadlier the Farther You Go

Space is much more than an empty distance above Earth. 🌌 The farther we travel, the more extreme the physics becomes, from the radiation of low Earth orbit to the crushin

This Moon Has Oxygen... But You Can’t Breathe There: Rhea

Rhea looks like one of Saturn’s most ordinary moons. Frozen, heavily cratered, and seemingly lifeless. But in two thousand and ten, the Cassini spacecraft discovered some

How Long Would You Survive on Every Planet Without a Spacesuit?

What would actually happen if you stepped onto another planet without a spacesuit? 🌌 Earth makes survival feel effortless. But across the rest of the solar system, the h

The Strange Moon That Generates Its Own Electricity: Hyperion

🌌 Hyperion is one of Saturn's strangest moons, and its mystery is electric. Far from Earth, a small, irregular moon called Hyperion moves through the Saturn system with

What We Would Actually Find If We Landed on Europa

Europa may be one of the most extraordinary places in our solar system, and beneath its frozen surface could be a vast ocean with the ingredients needed for life. 🌌 In t

Why the Nearest Stars to Earth Are Trying to Kill Us

What if the stars closest to Earth are among the most violent? In this long-form Snoozy Space documentary, we explore the strange and unsettling world of red dwarf stars

The Dark Red World Hiding Beyond Neptune: Gonggong

Gonggong may be one of the strangest worlds in the outer Solar System. 🌌 Once nicknamed “Snow White” because astronomers believed it was a bright, icy object, Gonggong t

The Impossible Star That Appears Older Than the Universe: Methuselah

Somewhere in the Milky Way, a star may be older than the universe itself. ✨ Meet Methuselah, one of the oldest and most mysterious stars ever studied. Officially catalog

What NASA Actually Found Inside Jupiters Great Red Spot

For more than four centuries, Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been one of the most recognizable features in the night sky. But beneath that enormous red cloud system lies a