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Black Holes as Dark Matter Detectors: A New Window into the Invisible Universe
Season 2 Episode 255
A new study in Physical Review Letters proposes a groundbreaking way to detect dark matter using images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Resea…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Nickel and Urea May Explain Why Earth’s Oxygen Took So Long to Rise
Season 2 Episode 254
In this episode, we uncover new research from Okayama University that sheds light on the delayed Great Oxidation Event.
Scientists found that early oc…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
AI Breakthrough: Gemini Finds Real Cosmic Signals with Minimal Data
Season 2 Episode 253
Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy brea…
6 months ago
Is Dark Matter an Illusion? New Study Challenges the Foundations of Cosmology
Season 2 Episode 252
A new study from the University of Ottawa is shaking up our understanding of the universe. Professor Rajendra Gupta suggests that dark matter and dar…
6 months ago
NASA’s IMAP Mission: Mapping the Sun’s Heliosphere
Season 2 Episode 251
In this episode, we dive into NASA’s IMAP mission—the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe—set to study the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble t…
6 months ago
Mapping the Cosmos: Euclid’s Flagship Simulation
Season 2 Episode 250
Scientists have built the largest galaxy simulation ever—3.4 billion galaxies and four trillion particles—to prepare for ESA’s Euclid mission. This c…
6 months, 1 week ago
Spirograph Nebula: A Century of Stellar Change
Season 2 Episode 249
Astronomers have tracked the Spirograph Nebula’s evolution over 130 years, from 19th-century spectroscopy to Hubble’s sharp images.
The central star h…
6 months, 1 week ago
Ariel: Uranus’ Hidden Ocean World
Season 2 Episode 248
New research suggests that Uranus’ moon Ariel may have once harbored a massive subsurface ocean over 100 miles deep. By analyzing fractures and ridge…
6 months, 1 week ago
Tumbleweed: Wind-Powered Rovers for Mars
Season 2 Episode 247
In September 2025, a bold new approach to planetary exploration took shape. The Tumbleweed rover, a five-meter spherical robot driven solely by Marti…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
NASA’s New Eye on Earth’s Hidden Halo
Season 2 Episode 246
NASA recently launched the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, a groundbreaking mission to capture the first continuous movies of Earth’s invisible atm…
6 months, 2 weeks ago