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The aggregated feed of the bitesz.com space news podcasts. Includes Space Nuts with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley, SpaceTime with Stuart Gary and Astronomy Daily the Podcast. Your space news covered in one timely feed.
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- Milky Way’s Hidden Neighbours Come Into View with Rubin Observatory · 25 minFriday SpaceTime 20261113 Series 29 Episode 136 The Milky Way galaxy’s new neighbours Astronomers have discovered two previously hidden companions of our Milky Way galaxy. Moving…
- Starship’s Double Catch Attempt, Euclid Opens Its Sky Survey, a Robot Builds in Orbit... · 19 minSpaceX is targeting today for Starship Flight 15, and for the first time it will try to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage back at the launch tower…
- M87’s Black Hole Confirmed & A Missing Exoplanet: Cosmic Mysteries Solved | Space Nuts:... · 35 minSponsor Link: This episode of Space Nuts is brought to you with the help and support of NordVPN ....the first name you should think of for your online security. To check out…
- A Planet Vanishes from View: Uranus’ Shifting Fields, Meerkat’s Hydrogen Map... · 23 minShow notes A hot Jupiter called TOI-2535 b has become the first planet around a single star seen to stop transiting, tipped out of line by an unseen neighbour. Plus: why Uranus…
- Sagittarius A*’s Stellar Graveyard Reveals a Metal-Rich Black Hole Neighbourhood · 20 minWednesday SpaceTime 20261111 Series 29 Episode 135 A stellar grave yard at the heart of the Milky Way A new study has shown that the gas orbiting the black hole at the centre of…
- Curiosity’s Spare Rover Heads to the Moon: Gravity Reconnection, Record-Cold Atoms... · 20 minShow notes NASA turns Curiosity's spare test-bed rover into PROMISE, a nuclear-powered rover bound for the Moon's south pole, as part of a sweep of Moon Base awards. Plus: a…
- Distant Starlight & White Holes: Answering Your Cosmic Questions | Space Nuts: Astronomy... · 32 minSponsor Link: This episode of Space Nuts is brought to you with the help and support of NordVPN ....the first name you should think of for your online security. To check out…
- Mars May Still Be Volcanically Active, New Evidence Suggests · 20 minMonday SpaceTime 20261109 Series 29 Episode 134 Growing hints of volcanic activity on Mars The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected signs of volcanic…
- Mars May Still Be Breathing: Alba Mons’ Mysterious Gas and Swift’s Final Plunge · 21 minIs Mars still volcanically alive? Europe's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter keeps catching hydrogen chloride, a gas that comes out of volcanoes on Earth, above fresh cracks on the giant…
- Webb’s Early-Universe Puzzle: A Radio First, New Glenn Hardware and Earth’s New Mini Moon · 19 minShow notes Light from newborn stars may have blown the fog out of the early universe. A new study by Shyam Menon (Flatiron Institute, ANU PhD) and Aaron Smith (UT Dallas) finds…
- Betelgeuse’s Hidden Companion Is Stirring the Red Supergiant’s Atmosphere · 36 minFriday SpaceTime 20261106 Series 29 Episode 133 Mysterious disturbances from Betelgeuse Astronomers have detected strange happenings on the mysterious companion star that lurks…
- Webb’s Digital Twin: A Hidden Planet, Ancient Stars and China’s Moon Plan · 21 minShow notes A Northwestern-led team builds a physics-based digital twin of the James Webb Space Telescope's coronagraph and recovers the giant planet 51 Eridani b in two-year-old…
- Rubin’s New Dwarf Planet & Neptune’s Trojan Asteroid: Discoveries on the Solar System’s Edge |... · 30 minSpace Nuts: A New Dwarf Planet, 3I/ATLAS, and Neptune’s Hidden Trojans In this episode of Space Nuts , Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson explore three discoveries from…
- Escapade’s Double Slingshot: Mars-Bound Probes, Missing Oxygen and Black Holes in Pants · 23 minShow notes ESCAPADE's double slingshot over Australia NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, Blue and Gold, will each fly a powered Earth flyby on their way to Mars: the first around 5…
- Gamma-Ray Afterglow Hints at a Hidden Stellar Monster · 17 minWednesday SpaceTime 20261104 Series 29 Episode 132 A cosmic blast’s dazzling glow hints at a monster in hiding Astronomers say a seemingly ordinary flash of gamma rays followed…
- Swift’s Final Orbit: A Lost Observatory, a Burst That Defies Explanation and Rusty Interstellar Ice · 23 minShow notes Swift's Last Orbit: NASA's burst hunter falls home, a gamma-ray burst that is two explosions in one, and 3I/ATLAS's dusty ice. Swift's Last Orbit NASA's Neil Gehrels…
- Two Black Holes Behind the Dust: Webb Reveals a Hidden Pair in the Early Universe · 22 minShow notes Two black holes caught feeding side by side just 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang. JWST and ALMA confirm LID-1166, the first close dual AGN found beyond the nearby…
- New Dwarf Planet Beyond Pluto Could Be Among the Kuiper Belt’s Largest · 28 minMonday SpaceTime 20261102 Series 29 Episode 131 New dwarf planet discovered beyond Pluto Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System…
- The Great Attractor & Saturn’s Rings: Unravelling Cosmic Questions | Space Nuts: Astronomy... · 31 minSpace Nuts: The Great Attractor, What Makes a Moon, and Life Beneath the Rings In this listener Q&A episode of Space Nuts , Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson tackle a…
- The Impenetrable Wall That Failed: Killer Electrons Made Inside Earth’s Radiation Belt · 22 minShow notes Electrons made on the wrong side of Earth's 'impenetrable barrier', a gamma-ray burst that only looked weak, the week that was, and a Halloween that is astronomically…
- S27E59: Venus’s Vanishing Vapors: The Mystery of a Bone-Dry Planet · 26 minEmbark on an interplanetary journey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 59, where we unravel the enigmatic atmosphere of Venus and its waterless environment. Discover the startling…
- S27E69: Webb’s Record-Breaking Galaxy Discovery and the Hunt for New Worlds · 25 minJoin us for SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 69, where we uncover the latest cosmic revelations and scientific advancements. First, we delve into a groundbreaking discovery by the…
- S27E56: Saturn’s Geyser Moon Mysteries: Tidal Forces and Life’s Potential · 23 minEmbark on an interstellar odyssey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 56, where we delve into the enigmatic geysers of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Unravel the mystery behind these…
- Mars’s Ancient Rock: A 4-Billion-Year-Old Clue to the Red Planet’s Past · 22 minShow notes A rose-coloured rock picked up in the Sahara in 2022 turns out to be one of the oldest pieces of Mars ever found. Teghaza 001 formed at least 4.1 billion years ago…
- Lunar Oasis: ESA Plans a Moon Base for Long-Term Science · 25 minFriday SpaceTime 20261030 Series 29 Episode 130 Europe’s plans for an OASIS on the Moon The European Space Agency is looking at developing its own moon base facility that would…
- Betelgeuse’s Ghost Companion: The Hidden Star Stirring Orion’s Giant · 23 minEpisode summary Betelgeuse is being haunted. New VLA and ALMA radio observations show the red supergiant's atmosphere stretches and relaxes in step with the orbit of its hidden…
- Japan’s Phobos Mission & Martian Quakes: Exploring Mars’ Moons, Canyons, and the Search for ET |... · 33 minSpace Nuts: Mars’ Moons, Martian Quakes, and the Search for ET In this engaging episode of Space Nuts , Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson explore two mysteries from Mars…
- Rubin’s Hidden Dwarf Planet: The World Lost in the Milky Way · 21 minShow notes Astronomy Daily S05E216 — A New World in the Crowd (Thursday 29 October 2026). Hosts Anna and Avery. Lead: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found its first…
- The Star That Was Born Twice: Orion’s Nebula Mystery · 24 minShow notes Astronomy Daily S05E215 — The Star That Was Born Twice (Tuesday 27 October 2026). Hosts Anna and Avery. Lead: the Orion Nebula's age paradox. Its planet-forming discs…
- Martian Rift: New Evidence Shows Valles Marineris Is Still Active · 15 minWednesday SpaceTime 20261028 Series 29 Episode 129 Giant Valles Marineris canyon still tectonically active A new study claims the solar system’s largest canyon Valles Marineris…
- A Gamma-Ray Burst’s Split Personality: The Week Swift Fell Silent · 26 minShow 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 same spot. A new…
- Antimatter Achievement: Scientists Successfully Trap Positrons for Months · 36 minMonday SpaceTime 20261026 Series 29 Episode 128 Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months Physicists have successfully trapped an antimatter particle…
- Artemis 4: The Moon’s Tiebreaker Awaits - The Weekend Wrap · 19 minShow 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 Venus changing sides…
- Starry Nights and Cosmic Insights: Van Gogh’s Real Sky Revealed · 23 minShow 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 camera and the…
- Martian Milestone: Perseverance Breaks Distance Record on the Red Planet · 17 minFriday 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 travelling the greatest…
- From Solar Storms to Martian Canyons: The Latest in Space News · 25 minShow notes Last November the Sun produced its strongest radiation storm in almost twenty years, and this time scientists were ready: neutron monitors from Cornwall to Shetland…
- Retrograde Orbits & Cosmic Collaborations: Unraveling NASA’s Boeing Deal and Backward Exoplanets... · 37 minSponsor Link: This episode of Space Nuts is brought to you by NordVPN . Protect your online privacy today by visiting www.nordvpn.com/spacenuts…
- Born Thick, Settled Thin · 22 minShow 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 on Hera…
- Cosmic Colour: The Discovery of the Universe’s First Ghostly Green Star · 24 minWednesday SpaceTime 20261021 Series 29 Episode 126 The first star in the universe that glows ghostly green Astronomers have discovered the first star in the universe that glows…
- Cracking the Moon’s Secrets: New Findings on Lunar Shrinkage · 22 minShow 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 — ~8,900 lobate…
- A Round Trip to Phobos Underway · 24 minMMX: 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 Oct; 06:41 AEDT…
- Phobos Frontier: Japan’s Groundbreaking Mission to Mars’ Mysterious Moon · 23 minMonday 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 the first…
- Cosmic Questions & Stellar Insights: Diving into the Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt, and Lunar Landers... · 35 minSponsor Link: This episode of Space Nuts is brought to you by NordVPN . Protect your online privacy today by visiting www.nordvpn.com/spacenuts…
- Time’s Tipping Point: The End of Leap Seconds and a Lunar Clock Revolution · 22 minShow 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 May…
- Lunar Magnetism & Cosmic Signals: Insights into Moon Mysteries and Radio Discoveries | Space... · 33 minSpace Nuts: Lunar Magnetism, Exoplanet Signals, and the Evolution of Spacecraft Windows In this captivating episode of Space Nuts , hosts Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson…
- Stellar Breakthroughs: The Discovery of Deuterated Methanol and the First Green Star · 27 minShow 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 methanol…
- Martian Mystery: Unveiling the Secrets of Arsia Mons’ Elusive Clouds · 25 minShow 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 come in…
- Dark Matter Dilemma: New Insights from the Bullet Cluster and Beyond · 22 minFriday 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 which…
- Cosmic Revelations: Artemis 2’s Historic Observations and the Case of Hypernovae · 25 minShow 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 flashes…
- Surf’s Up on Titan: Unveiling Waves on Saturn’s Mysterious Moon · 25 minWednesday 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 three…
