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Phobos Frontier: Japan’s Groundbreaking Mission to Mars’ Mysterious Moon

Monday SpaceTime 20261019 Series 29 Episode 125 Sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration mission is slated to launch today on th

Cosmic Questions & Stellar Insights: Diving into the Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt, and Lunar Landers...

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Time’s Tipping Point: The End of Leap Seconds and a Lunar Clock Revolution

Show notes Time Lets Go of the Sky On 15 October 2026 the 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles adopted Resolution 5: UTC becomes continuous on 20

Lunar Magnetism & Cosmic Signals: Insights into Moon Mysteries and Radio Discoveries | Space...

Space Nuts: Lunar Magnetism, Exoplanet Signals, and the Evolution of Spacecraft Windows In this captivating episode of Space Nuts , hosts Andrew Dunkley and Professor F

Stellar Breakthroughs: The Discovery of Deuterated Methanol and the First Green Star

Show notes Episode 206 opens with the first results from ALMA's COMPASS survey: the first detection anywhere in interstellar space of fully deuterated methanol, and metha

Martian Mystery: Unveiling the Secrets of Arsia Mons’ Elusive Clouds

Show notes A cloud on Mars that forms only if textbook-theoretical physics really happens; Webb maps a hot Jupiter's edge angle by angle; multi-planet systems turn out to

Dark Matter Dilemma: New Insights from the Bullet Cluster and Beyond

Friday SpaceTime 20261016 Series 29 Episode 124 Is dark matter real A new study has raised more questions about the existence of a mysterious substance called Dark Matter

Cosmic Revelations: Artemis 2’s Historic Observations and the Case of Hypernovae

Show notes Six months after Artemis II swung around the far side of the Moon, NASA has published what the crew saw, said and sketched — including five faint impact flashe

Surf’s Up on Titan: Unveiling Waves on Saturn’s Mysterious Moon

Wednesday SpaceTime 20261014 Series 29 Episode 123 Surfs up on the Saturnian moon Titan A new study suggests lakes and seas on the Saturnian moon Titan could produce a th

HERA’s Grand Maneuver: Braking for Didymos and the Future of Planetary Defence

Show notes Hera Hits the Brakes ESA's Hera spotted its target asteroid for the first time last week and fires its first braking burn on Thursday — 93 minutes of thrust to

Time Dilation & Cosmic Mysteries: Unpacking Your Space Queries | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights...

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Cloudy with a Chance of Water: The Mysteries of WISE 0855 Unveiled

The coldest brown dwarf we know has weather. JWST watched water clouds thicken and thin on WISE 0855, a sunless world seven and a half light-years away — plus a star slow

Dark Dimensions and Ancient Black Holes: Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Matter

Monday SpaceTime 20261012 Series 29 Episode 122 How ancient black holes and a hidden fifth dimension could explain dark matter A new study claims an ancient hypothetica

Strange Spins and Cosmic Rings: Exploring NGC 4698 and Chariklo’s Secrets | Space Nuts:...

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Time Travel & Cosmic Questions: The Science Behind Our Universe | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights...

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A Nobel in Ice: Unveiling the Secrets of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Show notes We're back after a short break! Today: the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory — a cubic kilometre of Antar

Space Force Unveiled: The Surprising Reality of Weapons in Orbit | Space Nuts: Astronomy...

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Hidden Wonders: Discovering the Mysterious Garo 04 Star Cluster

Friday SpaceTime 20261009 Series 29 Episode 121 The mysterious star cluster discovered hidden deep in Milky Way's disk Astronomers have discovered a strange star cluster

Starship Test Flight 14 Achieves Orbit

Monday SpaceTime 20261005 Series 29 Episode 119 Starship test flight 14 achieves orbit The world’s largest and most powerful rocket SpaceX’s Starship superheavy has succe

Building the Future: NASA’s Ambitious Plans for a Moon Base

Wednesday SpaceTime 20261007 Series 29 Episode 120 NASA adds new science investigations for Moon Base NASA has added payload suites for three new lunar scientific investi