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EXCITE Mission: A High-Altitude Balloon Telescope Mapping Alien Worlds
Season 3 Episode 321
The EXCITE mission is using a specialized infrared telescope carried by a high-altitude balloon to study the atmospheres of distant hot Jupiters. Flo…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mission to 3I/ATLAS: Can We Intercept the Next Interstellar Object?
Season 3 Episode 320
Scientists from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies have proposed an ambitious mission to intercept 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar visito…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Hubble Tension: Could Primordial Magnetic Fields Explain the Expanding Universe?
Season 3 Episode 319
Astronomers are grappling with the Hubble tension—a major conflict in measurements of how fast the universe is expanding.
Data from the cosmic microwa…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Black Hole Binaries Revealed by Gravitational Lensing
Season 3 Episode 318
Astronomers have proposed a new way to detect supermassive black hole binaries—by watching how they bend and magnify starlight. As two black holes or…
5 months ago
Failed Supernova? How a Massive Star Quietly Became a Black Hole
Season 3 Episode 317
Astronomers have identified a rare case in the Andromeda Galaxy where a massive star appears to have collapsed directly into a black hole—without exp…
5 months ago
Bennu Asteroid Samples Rewrite Origins of Prebiotic Life Molecules
Season 3 Episode 315
New analysis of asteroid Bennu shows that amino acids can form in cold, icy, and radioactive environments, overturning the idea that warm water is es…
5 months ago
First Subsurface Lava Tube Discovered on Venus
Season 3 Episode 314
Scientists analyzing NASA’s Magellan radar data have confirmed the first known subsurface lava tube on Venus, hidden beneath the planet’s thick cloud…
5 months ago
Is There No Black Hole? New Dark Matter Theory at the Center of the Milky Way
Season 3 Episode 316
A new study challenges the idea that a supermassive black hole sits at the center of the Milky Way. Instead, researchers propose a dense core of ferm…
5 months ago
James Webb Finds the Chemical Seeds of Life in a Distant Galaxy
Season 3 Episode 313
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a rich mix of organic molecules inside the dusty core of a distant galaxy.
The discove…
5 months ago
Gas Giants Around White Dwarfs: How Planets Survive Stellar Death
Season 3 Episode 312
This episode explores new research showing that while most planets are destroyed when stars become red giants, a small number of gas giants can survi…
5 months, 1 week ago