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Europe Launches From Europe — 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 stream

Cosmic Q&A: From Redshift to the Moon’s Hidden Temperatures | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights &...

Space Nuts: Q&A on the Swift Satellite, Redshift, and Hypothetical White Holes In this engaging Q&A edition of Space Nuts , hosts Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Wats

The Hydrogen Map: How a Radio Telescope Heard Half the Universe

Anna and Avery open the Weekend Wrap with a genuine first: South Africa's MeerKAT has detected the 21-centimetre hydrogen signal from four to five billion light years awa

One Flash in the Xenon: The Dark Matter Event Nobody Can Explain

Links & sources Brown University — LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter — https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-09-01/lz-dark-matter-results US Depart

Discovering Blazars and SpaceX’s New Spaceport

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 106 The most distant Blazar ever seen Astronomers have detected the most distant blazar ever recorded. The blazar -- catalogued as OP 313 was

BepiColombo Lets Go: Eight Years, Nine Flybys, One Irreversible Moment

Anna and Avery cover BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury beginning today, as the ESA/JAXA mission jettisons the transfer module that has carried it for nearly eight years an

The Starless Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist - But Does | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic...

Space Nuts: Spanish Eclipse, Nancy Grace Roman Launch, Cloud Nine, and Venus's Mysterious Clouds Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson cover four big astronomy stori

There’s Something Molten Under Mars’s South Pole

Today's episode — S05E183, Wednesday September 2, 2026: Main story: A thermal anomaly beneath Mars's south pole. Writing in Nature on August 27, a team led by Alexander B

Martian Waters and Cosmic Secrets: Unravelling Mars’ Ancient Liquid History

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 105 More evidence Mars once had liquid water More than 20 years after NASA's Mars Spirit rover landed on the red planet scientists have uncove

Catching the Uncatchable: Starship’s Boldest Test Yet

Today's episode — S05E182, Tuesday September 1, 2026: Main story: SpaceX cleared Booster 21's static fire at Starbase's Pad 2 on August 30, the last major milestone befor

Roman Launches: A Telescope’s Countdown Ends

🚀 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is safely away — Anna and Avery recap Sunday's clean Falcon Heavy launch, what happens next on the road to L2, and a surprise Aust

Martian Mysteries and Stellar Journeys: Unveiling the Red Planet’s Thermal Anomaly

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 104 Strange anomaly discovered below the Martian south pole Astronomers have discovered a strange thermal asymmetry deep beneath the surface o

Waves, Signals, and Cosmic Aromas: A Q&A Journey Through Space | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights...

In this intriguing Q&A episode of Space Nuts , hosts Andrew Dunkley and Professor Jonti Horner tackle a variety of cosmic queries from listeners. Join them as they explor

The Weekend Wrap, August 29: Roman’s Countdown Begins

Today's episode — S05E180, Saturday August 29, 2026, The Weekend Wrap: Main story: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches tomorrow, Sunday August 30, with a prima

Forty Times Brighter Than the Full Moon: Inside the Space-Mirror Fight

Today's episode — S05E179 , Friday August 28, 2026: Feature story: US startup Reflect Orbital has FCC approval for Eärendil-1, a demonstration satellite carrying a 60-foo

Microbial Hitchhikers: Contamination Risks on the Moon and Mars

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 103 *Warnings that some Earth microbes could contaminate the Moon NASA says some of Earth's microbes hitching a ride to space with human explo

SpaceX Hit the Moon, and the Real Problem Is Just Beginning | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights &...

Space Nuts: Moon impact, Roman Observatory launch, and Neptune’s odd moons Andrew Dunkley is joined by Professor Jonti Horner, Professor of Astrophysics at the Universi

Diamond Rain, Decoded: Twenty Years of Disagreement, Solved

Today's episode — S05E178, Thursday August 27, 2026: Feature story: Physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led by Marius Millot, used the Omega Laser Fac

Betelgeuse, Up Close: A Star’s Boiling Skin, Revealed

Today's episode — S05E177, Wednesday August 26, 2026: Feature story: Astronomers using the ALMA array in Chile, led by Bill Dent (European Southern Observatory), have r

Stellar Salvage: SpaceX’s Starship Recovery and the Age of the Universe

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 102 *SpaceX’s Starship arrives at Christmas Island After some 24 days at sea, a SpaceX recovery team has successfully towed its test flight 13