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Space News Today
The curated playlist of Space News podcasts from Bitesz.com...all your favourites in one feed. Space Nuts with Andrew Dunkley & Professor Fred Watson; SpaceTime with Stuart Gary and Astronomy Daily.
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Space News TodayArtemis 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…
Space News TodayStarry 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…
Space News TodayMartian Milestone: Perseverance Breaks Distance Record on the Red Planet
Friday SpaceTime 20261023 Series 29 Episode 127 NASA’s Perseverance Rover sets a new record NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has just set a new record for…
Space News TodayFrom 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…
Space News TodayRetrograde Orbits & Cosmic Collaborations: Unraveling NASA’s Boeing Deal and Backward Exoplanets...
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Space News TodayBorn 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…
Space News TodayCosmic Colour: The Discovery of the Universe’s First Ghostly Green Star
Wednesday SpaceTime 20261021 Series 29 Episode 126 The first star in the universe that glows ghostly green Astronomers have discovered the first star in the…
Space News TodayCracking 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 —…
Space News TodayA 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…
Space News TodayPhobos 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…
Space News TodayCosmic Questions & Stellar Insights: Diving into the Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt, and Lunar Landers...
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Space News TodayTime’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…
Space News TodayLunar 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…
Space News TodayStellar 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…
Space News TodayMartian 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…
Space News TodayDark 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…
Space News TodayCosmic 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…
Space News TodaySurf’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…
Space News TodayHERA’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…
Space News TodayTime Dilation & Cosmic Mysteries: Unpacking Your Space Queries | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights...
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Space News TodayCloudy 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…
Space News TodayDark 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…
Space News TodayStrange Spins and Cosmic Rings: Exploring NGC 4698 and Chariklo’s Secrets | Space Nuts:...
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Space News TodayTime Travel & Cosmic Questions: The Science Behind Our Universe | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights...
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Space News TodayA 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…
Space News TodaySpace Force Unveiled: The Surprising Reality of Weapons in Orbit | Space Nuts: Astronomy...
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Space News TodayHidden 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…
Space News TodayStarship 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…
Space News TodayBuilding 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…
Space News TodayLost Galaxy in the Milky Way: Unveiling the Stellar Remnants of Loki
SpaceTime 20261002 Series 29 Episode 118 A lost galaxy hiding deep inside the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a group of 20 stars deep inside the Milky…
Space News TodayDragonfly’s Titan Landing: NASA’s Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of the Saturnian Moon
SpaceTime 20260930 Series 29 Episode 117 NASA names Dragonfly’s landing site on Titan NASA has identified the landing site where its Dragonfly rotocopter will…
Space News TodayDiscovery of the Milky Way’s first microblazar
SpaceTime 20260928 Series 29 Episode 116 Discovery of the Milky Way's first microblazar Astronomers have discovered their first ever microblazar in the Milky…
Space News TodayThe Intricacies of Angular Momentum - What Happens Near Black Holes | Space Nuts: Astronomy...
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Space News TodayComet 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…
Space News TodayMars 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…
Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodaySpace 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…
Space News TodaySolar 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…
Space News TodayNavigating 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…
Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodayMercury 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…
Space News TodayWhy Venus May Have Lost Its Moon Forever | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries
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Space News TodayRoman 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…
Space News TodayCosmic 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…
Space News TodayLunar 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…
Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodayYour Questions Answered: The Mysteries of Jupiter and the Sun | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights &...
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Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodayHalf 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…
Space News TodayComet 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…
Space News TodayA 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…
Space News TodayThe Dark Matter Hint That Could Rewrite Physics | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic...
Space Nuts: Dark matter clues, Saturn’s new decagon, Mars and Titan missions. Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson cover a packed astronomy episode that…
Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodayThe 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…
Space News TodayEurope 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…
Space News TodayCosmic Q&A: From Redshift to the Moon’s Hidden Temperatures | Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights &...
Space Nuts: Q&A on the Swift Satellite, Redshift, and Hypothetical White Holes In this engaging Q&A edition of Space Nuts , hosts Andrew Dunkley and Professor…