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Episodes
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsA Gamma-Ray Burst’s Split Personality: The Week Swift Fell Silent
Show notes In 2016, NASA's Swift caught a gamma-ray burst that came in two parts: a 1.7-second spike, four minutes of silence, then a 51-second burst from the…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsArtemis 4: The Moon's Tiebreaker Awaits - The Weekend Wrap
Show notes NASA lays out Artemis III day by day: fourteen days in Earth orbit, two rival landers, one Orion. Plus the week that was, Swift's final bow, and…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsStarry Nights and Cosmic Insights: Van Gogh's Real Sky Revealed
Show notes Astronomers argue The Starry Night shows a real pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy around 22 July 1889; Roman enters science commissioning; Rubin's test…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsFrom Solar Storms to Martian Canyons: The Latest in Space News
Show notes Last November the Sun produced its strongest radiation storm in almost twenty years, and this time scientists were ready: neutron monitors from…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsBorn Thick, Settled Thin
Show notes The Milky Way's disc settled in two stages; metal-rich gas around Sgr A*; two mirror-image simulated universes; shadows in the Orion Bar; quick hits…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsCracking the Moon's Secrets: New Findings on Lunar Shrinkage
Show notes The Moon Is Still Shrinking Watters, Banks, Nypaver and Robinson (Planetary Science Journal, 14 Oct 2026) map more than 10,000 young thrust faults —…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsA Round Trip to Phobos Underway
MMX: A Round Trip to Phobos JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration mission launched on schedule on H3 Flight No. 10 at 04:41:03 JST on 20 October 2026 (19:41 UTC 19…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsTime'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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsStellar 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsMartian 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsCosmic 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsHERA'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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsCloudy 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsA 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsWhat Keeps a Galaxy Churning: Andromeda's Supernova Secrets Revealed
Supernovae keep galaxies churning A new study led by Fan Yi Meng from Tsinghua University provides the first comprehensive census of superbubbles in the…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsRoman 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsHalf 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsA Hundred and Nine Flashes
Today's episode — S05E190, Thursday September 10, 2026: Main story: 109 fast radio bursts have been used to measure how much galactic feedback has smoothed out…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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 — dark, cold and empty enough that…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsEurope 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsOne 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 —…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsBepiColombo 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThere'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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsCatching 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsRoman 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsForty 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsDiamond 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsBetelgeuse, 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…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsNASA's Roman Space Telescope Is Ready to Fly — Nine Months Early
Today's episode — S05E176, Tuesday August 25, 2026: Feature story: NASA's Roman Space Telescope is fully encapsulated inside its Falcon Heavy fairing and…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsChina Delays Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Ever
Today's episode — S05E175, Monday August 24, 2026: Main story: China delays Chang'e-7's launch by about a month. The Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission's…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsChina's About to Attempt the Most Ambitious Moon Mission Ever
Anna and Avery cover China's Chang'e-7 mission — a four-vehicle lunar south pole expedition, including a leaping hopper robot, that a Brown University…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsNASA Finds the Crater a SpaceX Rocket Left on the Moon
Anna and Avery cover how NASA, working with South Korea's Danuri orbiter, pinpointed and imaged the exact crater left by a SpaceX Falcon 9 stage that struck…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsLandSpace Nails It: China's First Private Booster Recovery
Anna and Avery cover LandSpace becoming the first Chinese commercial company to land an orbital-class rocket booster — a big step for the country's private…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsFirst Frenchwoman in Space Steps Outside
Anna and Avery cover Sophie Adenot becoming the first French woman ever to conduct a spacewalk — a historic EVA that ran into some antenna trouble along the…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsStarship's Ship 40 Makes It Home
Anna and Avery close out a three-week saga: SpaceX has recovered Starship's Ship 40 from the Indian Ocean after a soft splashdown, a difficult tow, and a…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsTiny Robots, Alien Caves: NASA's Plan for Titan
Anna and Avery cover NASA's newly funded concept for spherical, propeller-free "aerobots" that could one day explore the methane-carved cave systems of…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsIs Empty Space Really Empty? A 90-Year-Old Mystery Gets Its Answer (S05E168 — The Weekend Wrap)
Today's episode — S05E168, Saturday August 15, 2026, our "Weekend Wrap": **Main story: a magnetar confirms 90-year-old vacuum birefringence prediction.** A…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe Black Hole Wrapped in a Star: JWST's Cosmic Dawn Discovery
Anna and Avery break down JWST's discovery of MoM-BH*-1, the earliest known "black hole star" — a black hole shrouded in dense gas, glowing from just 660…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsTwo Minutes of Totality: Inside the August 12 Eclipse
Anna and Avery break down yesterday's total solar eclipse — a 182-mile-wide shadow that swept from the Arctic through Greenland and Iceland to northern Spain…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsEclipse 2026: Where, When & How to Watch (Both Hemispheres)
In this episode • Shadow Day: the only total solar eclipse of 2026 crosses Arctic Russia, Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain today — the first total…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsEclipse Eve: Totality Returns to Europe
Astronomy Daily · S05E164 “Eclipse Eve” · Tuesday 11 August 2026. Sources are primary/agency where possible; aggregator dates were checked against originals…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsSpaceX Starship Lost at Sea? Plus China’s Landing Attempt & Uranus “Breathing”
Astronomy Daily · S05E163 · “The Long Way Home” · Monday 10 August 2026. Sources verified against primary / institutional outlets. Starship “lost at sea”…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsWhirlpools Found on the Sun’s Surface for the First Time
This weekend on Astronomy Daily: the Inouye Solar Telescope reveals whirlpools on the Sun’s surface for the first time, a Falcon 9 upper stage carves a fresh…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe Colour of Empty Space
Astronomy Daily · S05E161 · “The Colour of Empty Space” · Friday 7 August 2026. Hosts: Anna & Avery. astronomydaily.io · @AstroDailyPod ① Vacuum birefringence…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsA Rocket Just Hit the Moon — And Telescopes Caught It
Astronomy Daily · S05E160 · 6 August 2026. In this episode: a Falcon 9 upper stage confirmed to have struck the Moon; a live ISS spacewalk; supernova SN…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsVoyager 2’s “Big Bang” Rescue: One More Year in Deep Space
Astronomy Daily S05E159 — Wednesday, 5 August 2026. In this episode: a power-saving “Big Bang” keeps Voyager 2 doing science, direct-to-phone satellites reach…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe Crater Makers: Falcon 9 Hits the Moon Tomorrow | Today’s Space News
S05E158 — “The Crater Makers” · Tuesday 4 August 2026. Four stories on cosmic impacts — and a new map of the X-ray sky — plus a both-hemispheres skywatch. ① A…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe Largest Galaxy in the Universe, Measured at Last
Astronomy Daily · S05E157 · “The Edge of Everything” · Monday 3 August 2026 In this episode • The largest galaxy, measured at last. Ultra-deep imaging of IC…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe First “Self-Driving” Telescope Goes Stargazing (SkAI )
Astronomy Daily S05E156 — Weekend Space & Astronomy News Wrap. Saturday, 1 August 2026. In this episode • The first “self-driving” telescope — a SkAI…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThree of a Kind
S05E155 · Friday 31 July 2026 · Astronomy Daily with Anna & Avery. Four stories and a both-hemispheres skywatch. Australian English. ① Asteroid (44) Nysa — the…
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Three of a Kind
S05E155 · Friday 31 July 2026 · Astronomy Daily with Anna & Avery. Four stories and a both-hemispheres skywatch. Australian English. ① Asteroid (44) Nysa — the…
Astronomy Daily: Latest Space NewsThe Reach of a Giant
Astronomy Daily S05E154 — “The Reach of a Giant.” Thursday, 30 July 2026. Hosted by Anna and Avery. In this episode • A supermassive black hole caught heating…