Shows / Fascinating Frontiers — Video Edition
Fascinating Frontiers — Video Edition
Daily space and astronomy news: NASA and SpaceX missions, ESA operations, exoplanet and James Webb discoveries, and the engineering behind humanity's push into the cosmos — with ongoing story tracking across Starship, Artemis, and deep-space science. For space enthusiasts, engineers, and the curious.
Episodes
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 237: Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, becomes JPL deputy director on November 30.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, becomes JPL deputy director on November 30. Reid…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 236: Hera has resolved Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids 197 million kilometres away.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Hera has resolved Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids 197 million kilometres…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 235: Two satellites closed from 189 km to 47 km apart in four days while matching speeds at…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Two satellites closed from 189 km to 47 km apart in four days while matching speeds at…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 234: Webb has imaged a giant planet seven point six times Jupiter's mass just twelve light…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Webb has imaged a giant planet seven point six times Jupiter's mass just twelve…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 233: Astronomers have found evidence of a Jupiter-mass exosatellite orbiting a brown dwarf in…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have found evidence of a Jupiter-mass exosatellite orbiting a brown dwarf in…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 232: White dwarfs can appear yellow, pink or purple when trace elements in their dense…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News White dwarfs can appear yellow, pink or purple when trace elements in their dense…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 231: Europe will begin independent cargo deliveries to the lunar surface from 2030 with its new…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Europe will begin independent cargo deliveries to the lunar surface from 2030 with its…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 230: Expansion may place entire galaxies permanently beyond any telescope's reach.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Expansion may place entire galaxies permanently beyond any telescope's reach. Stars…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 229: Simulations show merging neutron stars can boost their magnetic fields more than 300 times…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Simulations show merging neutron stars can boost their magnetic fields more than 300…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 228: A European service station on the Moon will keep experiments running for years by storing…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A European service station on the Moon will keep experiments running for years by…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 227: A two-million-light-year radio structure shaped like a treble clef was re-energized by a…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A two-million-light-year radio structure shaped like a treble clef was re-energized by a…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 226: Four Artemis II astronauts accepted the Stephen Hawking Medal for turning their lunar…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Four Artemis II astronauts accepted the Stephen Hawking Medal for turning their lunar…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 225: Seven billion light-years away, a supercluster holding more than two quadrillion solar…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Seven billion light-years away, a supercluster holding more than two quadrillion solar…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 224: Detailed maps of young lunar faults now give the clearest measure yet of how much the moon…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Detailed maps of young lunar faults now give the clearest measure yet of how much the…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 223: Perseverance has driven farther on Mars than any rover before it thanks to its AutoNav…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Perseverance has driven farther on Mars than any rover before it thanks to its AutoNav…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 222: Perseverance rover just added another 91 meters to its Mars record in one day, pushing the…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Perseverance rover just added another 91 meters to its Mars record in one day, pushing…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 221: New helium measurements are confirming the exact mix forged in the universe's first minutes.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News New helium measurements are confirming the exact mix forged in the universe's first…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 220: European companies will test lunar rovers inside new Italian simulation facilities.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News European companies will test lunar rovers inside new Italian simulation facilities. Top…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 219: Astronomers have fresh clues about the irregular dimming of Tabby's Star that once hinted…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have fresh clues about the irregular dimming of Tabby's Star that once…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 218: A sharp mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Moon's farside has a…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A sharp mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Moon's farside has a…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 217: A high school student has identified three dwarf galaxies whose star formation patterns…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A high school student has identified three dwarf galaxies whose star formation patterns…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 216: A radio galaxy from nearly twelve point five billion years ago has been confirmed as one…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A radio galaxy from nearly twelve point five billion years ago has been confirmed as one…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 215: Sophie Adenot and her Crew-12 crewmates undocked from the International Space Station…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Sophie Adenot and her Crew-12 crewmates undocked from the International Space Station…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 214: SpaceX Crew Dragon Grace reached the International Space Station in seven hours and fifty…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News SpaceX Crew Dragon Grace reached the International Space Station in seven hours and…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 213: Tidal streams around the Sombrero galaxy show it grew through repeated mergers thirty…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Tidal streams around the Sombrero galaxy show it grew through repeated mergers thirty…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 212: Starlink is beta testing a program allowing property owners to earn passive income by…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Starlink is beta testing a program allowing property owners to earn passive income by…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 211: SpaceX completed three Falcon launches, four first stage landings, and a Dragon docking to…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News SpaceX completed three Falcon launches, four first stage landings, and a Dragon docking…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 210: Researchers now estimate Mars north pole ice contains only three percent dust by mass…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Researchers now estimate Mars north pole ice contains only three percent dust by mass…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 209: Webb telescope image of galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300 shows hundreds more galaxies than…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Webb telescope image of galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300 shows hundreds more galaxies…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 208: NASA will pay Boeing three hundred fifty nine million dollars to return Starliner to…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News NASA will pay Boeing three hundred fifty nine million dollars to return Starliner to…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 207: A new map reveals hundreds of previously unknown valleys beneath Greenland's vast ice sheet.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A new map reveals hundreds of previously unknown valleys beneath Greenland's vast ice…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 206: JWST data shows Chariklo's inner ring grew over fifty percent denser while its outer ring…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News JWST data shows Chariklo's inner ring grew over fifty percent denser while its outer…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 205: The LINK spacecraft reentered over the South Pacific after failing its rescue mission for…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News The LINK spacecraft reentered over the South Pacific after failing its rescue mission…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 204: Côte d'Ivoire becomes the seventy fifth nation to sign the Artemis Accords, expanding…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Côte d'Ivoire becomes the seventy fifth nation to sign the Artemis Accords, expanding…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 203: Chinese spaceplane executed a rerendezvous with its subsat on September tenth and a…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Chinese spaceplane executed a rerendezvous with its subsat on September tenth and a…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 202: McGetchin crater on the Moon gets its name in today's astronomy picture of the day.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News McGetchin crater on the Moon gets its name in today's astronomy picture of the day. Top…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 201: Astronomers have detected the first direct radio signals from an exoplanet, opening a new…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have detected the first direct radio signals from an exoplanet, opening a…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 200: New research suggests Venus may have devoured its own moon, explaining its current lack of…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News New research suggests Venus may have devoured its own moon, explaining its current lack…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 199: Astronaut Tim Peake revealed the one everyday item he most missed during his time aboard…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronaut Tim Peake revealed the one everyday item he most missed during his time aboard…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 198: Astronomers are pushing back against a plan to launch mirrors that would brighten the…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers are pushing back against a plan to launch mirrors that would brighten the…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 197: Astronomers have discovered the youngest known exoplanet, a baby world still forming at…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have discovered the youngest known exoplanet, a baby world still forming at…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 196: Liquid nitrogen appears to have flowed across Pluto, captured in fresh images from a…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Liquid nitrogen appears to have flowed across Pluto, captured in fresh images from a…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 195: An invisible mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies is dragging the Milky Way…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News An invisible mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies is dragging the Milky Way…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 194: An amateur map scout hunting Quebec campsites instead found a hidden impact crater from…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News An amateur map scout hunting Quebec campsites instead found a hidden impact crater from…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 193: New analysis shows the moon's polar water deposits fall far short of what would be needed…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News New analysis shows the moon's polar water deposits fall far short of what would be…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 192: A fresh catalog of nearly 3,000 supernovae is already testing long-held ideas about what…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A fresh catalog of nearly 3,000 supernovae is already testing long-held ideas about what…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 191: A distant exoplanet hosts winds racing at 5400 mph, far faster than anything in our solar…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A distant exoplanet hosts winds racing at 5400 mph, far faster than anything in our…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 190: A new X-ray catalog just doubled the known high-energy sources across the sky.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A new X-ray catalog just doubled the known high-energy sources across the sky. Top 15…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 189: UK astronomers have traced the third known interstellar object back to its likely…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News UK astronomers have traced the third known interstellar object back to its likely…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 188: Telescopes reveal the most distant galaxy supercluster seed yet, showing how the cosmic…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Telescopes reveal the most distant galaxy supercluster seed yet, showing how the cosmic…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 187: Hubble captures a striking decagon of clouds locked around Saturn’s south pole.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Hubble captures a striking decagon of clouds locked around Saturn’s south pole. Top 15…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 186: The Sun's vast magnetic boundary just came into sharper focus from a third of Earth's…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News The Sun's vast magnetic boundary just came into sharper focus from a third of Earth's…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 185: A private German rocket just became the first to reach orbit from continental Europe…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A private German rocket just became the first to reach orbit from continental Europe…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 184: Radio astronomers have captured hydrogen signals from when the universe was billions of…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Radio astronomers have captured hydrogen signals from when the universe was billions of…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 183: A distant icy body is caught mid-transformation into an active comet, revealing a key…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A distant icy body is caught mid-transformation into an active comet, revealing a key…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 182: Sierra Space has locked in the first payloads for Dream Chaser’s debut flight, marking a…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Sierra Space has locked in the first payloads for Dream Chaser’s debut flight, marking a…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 181: A single particle interaction recorded a mile underground has physicists rethinking how…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A single particle interaction recorded a mile underground has physicists rethinking how…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 180: Blue Origin is building a 120,000-square-foot facility to handle the large payloads its…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Blue Origin is building a 120,000-square-foot facility to handle the large payloads its…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 179: ESA's JUICE probe will swing past a dark, untouched Jovian moon in 2031 that may preserve…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News ESA's JUICE probe will swing past a dark, untouched Jovian moon in 2031 that may…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 178: Researchers melted diamond under crushing pressure to recreate the weather inside ice…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Researchers melted diamond under crushing pressure to recreate the weather inside ice…