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The Mystery of Venus’s Retrograde Rotation
Season 3
Why does Venus rotate in the opposite direction of most planets? A new study points to a dramatic event in the planet’s distant past that may hold th…
13 hours ago
Why Reaching the Stars Is Harder Than We Thought
Season 3
Laser-driven solar sails could one day carry spacecraft to distant stars, offering a path beyond the limits of conventional rockets.
But new research …
1 day, 13 hours ago
REMORA: Hunting Asteroids with Autonomous Satellites
Season 3 Episode 463
The proposed REMORA mission aims to deploy a fleet of autonomous CubeSats to track and study near-Earth asteroids up close.
By combining self-navigati…
2 days, 5 hours ago
New Horizons Is Awake Again at the Edge of the Solar System
Season 3
After a record 321-day hibernation, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has awakened nearly six billion miles from Earth.
The historic Pluto and Arrokoth e…
3 days, 13 hours ago
The Strange Alternative to Black Holes Proposed by Physicists
Season 3 Episode 462
A new theoretical model suggests that some collapsing stars may not form traditional black holes at all. Instead, they could become gravastars—exotic…
4 days, 13 hours ago
A Hidden Population in the Early Universe
Season 3
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided new clues about the mysterious little red dots discovered in the early universe.
By taking a closer look a…
5 days, 13 hours ago
The Future of Space Medicine
Season 3
Could future astronauts grow medicine instead of carrying it from Earth?
This episode explores a new approach that turns plants into renewable pharmac…
6 days, 13 hours ago
Digging for Signs of Life on the Red Planet
Season 3
Could Mars once have been a world of oceans, rivers, and potentially habitable environments?
This episode explores the ExoMars mission's search for an…
1 week ago
The Cosmic Rosetta Stone: Decoding Long-Period Radio Transients
Season 3
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by rare, slow-repeating radio signals from deep space. Now, a newly studied source may provide a crucial clu…
1 week, 1 day ago
NASA's Three-Satellite Mission to Decode Extreme Storms
Season 3
NASA's INCUS mission will deploy three coordinated satellites to study the inner workings of tropical storms from orbit.
By measuring the movement of …
1 week, 2 days ago