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The Intricacies of Angular Momentum - What Happens Near Black Holes | Space Nuts: Astronomy...

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Comet 3I ATLAS: Unveiling the Secrets of an Ancient Interstellar Wanderer

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 115 A comet older than the Sun Astronomers have found new clues about the origin of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS suggesting it’s more than twic

Mars Gullies Aren’t Made by Water: The Surprising Dry Ice Answer | Space Nuts: Astronomy...

Perseverance drove to the edge of an ancient Martian lake expecting a beach and found the inside of a volcano — rock that water has been through at least three separate t

The Great Water Mystery: Jezero Crater and the Hunt for Mars’ Hidden History

Perseverance drove to the edge of an ancient Martian lake expecting a beach and found the inside of a volcano — rock that water has been through at least three separate t

Space Warfare Unveiled: The US Space Force’s Kinetic Capabilities and Venus’s Lost Moon

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 114 United States Space Force confirms it has weapons in orbit The United States Space Force confirms it has weapons in orbit to protect Ameri

What Keeps a Galaxy Churning: Andromeda’s Supernova Secrets Revealed

Solar Superflares and Gondwana’s Legacy: Unpacking Earth’s Cosmic Changes

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 113 New evidence of superflares on the Sun A new study has found that a giant sunspot observed back in 1947 had the potential to trigger a mas

Navigating the Cosmic Questions: Gravity Assists, Neutrinos, and Time Dilation Explained | Space...

Space Nuts: Q&A on BepiColombo, Neutrinos, and Time Dilation In this Q&A edition of Space Nuts , hosts Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson dive into a series of in

The Unifying Mystery of Black Hole Jets: Stellar and Supermassive Connections

SHOW NOTES Black hole jets follow one universal rule Adelle Goodwin (Curtin University / ICRAR, Forrest Research Foundation Fellow) and Andrew Mummery (Institute for Adva

The Youngest Planet Ever Found

Astronomers have confirmed the youngest planet ever found - Elias 2-24 b, less than a million years old, sitting inside a gap it is carving in its own birth disc 450 ligh

Mercury Unveiled: BepiColombo’s Approach and the Planet’s Volcanic History

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 112 BepiColumbo on final approach to Mercury The BepiColumbo spacecraft Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated from the main space

Why Venus May Have Lost Its Moon Forever | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

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Roman Opens Its Eye

First starlight from Roman, a shorter fuse on the Solar System, weapons in orbit, and a globular cluster hiding behind the dust Roman opens its eye — and finds it has twi

Cosmic Revelations: 27 New Worlds and Saturn’s Mysterious Decagonal Jet

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 111 27 new Trans Neptunian Objects discovered in the outer solar system The first ever joint observation of Trans Neptunian objects by NASA’s

Lunar Mysteries and Snowball Earth: Unraveling Cosmic Enigmas

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 110 Lunar far side rocks rewriting history A new study claims the timing and intensity of asteroid bombardment across the lunar surface declin

The Evolving Enigma of Dark Energy and the Sun’s Mysterious Past

An Australian-led team has rebuilt thirty years of supernova observations into one consistent catalogue — and it adds fresh weight to the idea that dark energy is not con

Your Questions Answered: The Mysteries of Jupiter and the Sun | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights &...

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The Planet That Keeps Shrinking plus the Weekend Wrap

Today's episode — 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 iro

Half the Neutron Stars

Today's episode — S05E191, Friday September 11, 2026: Main story: A population-synthesis study published in Nature Astronomy on 10 September argues that magnetars make up

Comet Births and Neptune’s Secrets

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 109 Witnessing the birth of a comet More than 5 billion kilometres from Earth, an ancient icy object is slowly awakening as a distant frozen w