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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.
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Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 177: A Canadian university lab is teaming up with the Canadian Space Agency to explore how…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A Canadian university lab is teaming up with the Canadian Space Agency to explore how…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 175: A failed private rescue leaves NASA's Swift telescope on course for an uncontrolled return…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A failed private rescue leaves NASA's Swift telescope on course for an uncontrolled…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 176: A European weather satellite has reached its transfer orbit and is confirmed healthy after…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A European weather satellite has reached its transfer orbit and is confirmed healthy…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 174: Europe just signed its first contracts to grow independent launch capability while Venus…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Europe just signed its first contracts to grow independent launch capability while Venus…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 173: A new vest design could cut cancer risk for astronauts heading beyond Earth’s protective…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A new vest design could cut cancer risk for astronauts heading beyond Earth’s protective…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 172: After an eight-year trek, a joint ESA-JAXA spacecraft is about to become the third to…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News After an eight-year trek, a joint ESA-JAXA spacecraft is about to become the third to…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 171: A fleet of seventeen spacecraft has shown that solar eruptions stretch across a far larger…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A fleet of seventeen spacecraft has shown that solar eruptions stretch across a far…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 170: Earth's shadow will soon swallow 96 percent of the Moon, giving the Americas a front-row…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Earth's shadow will soon swallow 96 percent of the Moon, giving the Americas a front-row…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 169: A suitcase-sized satellite on the Moon’s far side could finally listen to the universe’s…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A suitcase-sized satellite on the Moon’s far side could finally listen to the universe’s…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 168: Multiple observatories have combined forces to reveal the Tarantula Nebula’s turbulent…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Multiple observatories have combined forces to reveal the Tarantula Nebula’s turbulent…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 167: A satellite built to measure photosynthesis from orbit just received its final fuel load…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A satellite built to measure photosynthesis from orbit just received its final fuel load…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 166: A star has been clocked orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole at 25,000 km/s, closer…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A star has been clocked orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole at 25,000 km/s…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 165: Gaia and Hubble have traced the Milky Way’s first major collision to a dwarf galaxy…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Gaia and Hubble have traced the Milky Way’s first major collision to a dwarf galaxy…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 164: Spherical robots may soon explore hidden caves on Saturn’s moon Titan in search of…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Spherical robots may soon explore hidden caves on Saturn’s moon Titan in search of…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 163: Astronomers may have been reading the wrong spin on distant worlds because thick…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers may have been reading the wrong spin on distant worlds because thick…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 162: Orbital mirrors could flood the night sky with light brighter than the full Moon across…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Orbital mirrors could flood the night sky with light brighter than the full Moon across…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 161: A rare star stream outside the Milky Way just gave astronomers a new way to weigh dark…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A rare star stream outside the Milky Way just gave astronomers a new way to weigh dark…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 160: A new X-ray catalog of two million sources shows galaxy cluster outskirts hotter and…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A new X-ray catalog of two million sources shows galaxy cluster outskirts hotter and…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 159: A star near our galaxy’s central black hole is still forming dust and water despite…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A star near our galaxy’s central black hole is still forming dust and water despite…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 158: Webb reveals dust and water forming right next to the Milky Way’s central black hole…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Webb reveals dust and water forming right next to the Milky Way’s central black hole…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 157: Astronomers watched a lone black hole shred a star, revealing how these wanderers reshape…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers watched a lone black hole shred a star, revealing how these wanderers…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 156: A self-driving rover on Mars has already shattered every distance record set by earlier…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A self-driving rover on Mars has already shattered every distance record set by earlier…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 155: A gravitational arc candidate at redshift near 4.4 has appeared in public James Webb data…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A gravitational arc candidate at redshift near 4.4 has appeared in public James Webb…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 154: A trillion-mile gas streamer is tilting the planet-forming disk around a young triple…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A trillion-mile gas streamer is tilting the planet-forming disk around a young triple…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 153: A Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the Moon after drifting for a year, giving orbiters a…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the Moon after drifting for a year, giving orbiters…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 152: Webb’s pinhole mask is letting astronomers resolve details on Io and young stars that…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Webb’s pinhole mask is letting astronomers resolve details on Io and young stars that…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 151: Astronomers have now searched far more of the Milky Way for alien signals than anyone…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have now searched far more of the Milky Way for alien signals than anyone…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 150: A spent Falcon 9 stage is heading for a lunar impact this week that orbiters will track in…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A spent Falcon 9 stage is heading for a lunar impact this week that orbiters will track…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 149: A new Chinese lunar mission is drawing interest from an entire continent while NASA’s…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A new Chinese lunar mission is drawing interest from an entire continent while NASA’s…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 148: Astronomers have detected the first exomoon, opening a new window on how satellites form…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have detected the first exomoon, opening a new window on how satellites form…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 147: Venus will dominate evening skies this August while Mercury and Jupiter form a tight dawn…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Venus will dominate evening skies this August while Mercury and Jupiter form a tight…
Fascinating Frontiers — Video EditionEp 146: Webb is tracing how the universe’s earliest mysterious red objects may have simply grown…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Webb is tracing how the universe’s earliest mysterious red objects may have simply grown…
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Ep 145: Radio telescopes have tracked space debris for the first time by listening for its own faint signals.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Radio telescopes have tracked space debris for the first time by listening for its own…
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Ep 144: A seed that circled the Moon now grows into a living tree in the middle of Manhattan.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A seed that circled the Moon now grows into a living tree in the middle of Manhattan…
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Ep 143: Three astronauts are heading home after 241 days in orbit while Juno reaches its closest approach to Earth.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Three astronauts are heading home after 241 days in orbit while Juno reaches its closest…
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Ep 142: Astronomers report the first strong evidence for an exomoon orbiting a planet 73 light-years away.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers report the first strong evidence for an exomoon orbiting a planet 73…
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Ep 141: Hubble has found the first “missing” black hole inside a famous star cluster by combining two decades of data with new infrared views.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Hubble has found the first “missing” black hole inside a famous star cluster by…
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Ep 140: A candidate Jupiter-sized moon orbiting far beyond our solar system is forcing astronomers to redraw the line between planets and moons.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A candidate Jupiter-sized moon orbiting far beyond our solar system is forcing…
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Ep 139: A European spacecraft just cleared its final major test before hunting Earth-like worlds around Sun-like stars.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A European spacecraft just cleared its final major test before hunting Earth-like worlds…
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Ep 138: Astronomers have watched a distant galaxy's central black hole erupt for the first time in real time after two prior outbursts went unseen until they faded.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have watched a distant galaxy's central black hole erupt for the first time…
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Ep 137: Fifty years after Viking 1 touched down on Mars, new missions are shifting focus from the surface to the thin air above the Red Planet.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Fifty years after Viking 1 touched down on Mars, new missions are shifting focus from…
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Ep 136: NASA's Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a gravitational slingshot, returning a rich dataset that will sharpen its approach to a metal world never visited before.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News NASA's Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a gravitational slingshot, returning a rich…
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Ep 135: A private Indian rocket just reached orbit on its first try while a NASA probe wakes up billions of miles out.
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A private Indian rocket just reached orbit on its first try while a NASA probe wakes up…