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TOI-561 b: Ultra-Hot Exoplanet Has Impossible Atmosphere
Season 3 Episode 291
The James Webb Space Telescope just discovered something that shouldn't exist—a thick atmosphere on a hellish magma world orbiting so close to its st…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Black Hole Winds at 60,000 km/s: First Real-Time Observation of Galactic Super-Eruptions
Season 2 Episode 290
For the first time ever, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole throwing a cosmic tantrum in real-time.
Scientists watched as a black hole …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Is the Universe Asymmetrical? Scientists Find Cosmic Dipole Anomaly That Breaks Physics
Season 2 Episode 289
Is the universe lopsided? New research is shaking the foundations of cosmology by revealing a cosmic dipole anomaly—a troubling mismatch between anci…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Enceladus Life Search: Saturn's Moon Shows Signs of Alien Biology
Season 2 Episode 288
Could alien life exist beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon? New analysis of Cassini spacecraft data reveals that Enceladus harbors the essential…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Finding Aliens by Studying Fireflies: Rethinking the Search for ETs
Season 2 Episode 288
Scientists are rethinking the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by studying firefly bioluminescence instead of only looking for human-like rad…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
SPHEREx Maps the Entire Sky in 3D Infrared
Season 2 Episode 286
NASA's SPHEREx telescope has created the first complete 3D infrared sky map using 102 wavelengths invisible to human eyes. This revolutionary dataset…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Superkilonova: The Dual Cosmic Explosion
Season 2 Episode 285
A baffling cosmic event, designated AT2025ulz, was detected by LIGO and Virgo and is now considered a candidate for a never-before-seen phenomenon: a…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Mapping the Magellanic Clouds: The 1001MC Stellar Survey
Season 2 Episode 284
This episode explores a new five-year astronomical survey of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the 4MOST spectrograph on the VISTA Telescop…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
James Webb Reveals a Hidden Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe
Season 2 Episode 283
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that a seemingly ordinary young galaxy, seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang, hides a ra…
7 months ago
Record-Breaking Gamma-Ray Burst Near Light Speed
Season 2 Episode 282
Discover the fastest cosmic explosion ever recorded! We explore GRB 230307A, a gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Fermi Space Telescope that reached …
7 months ago