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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 that shields our solar system.
Led in part by Univer…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days 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 cosmic mock-up will help decode dark energy, map th…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days 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 has heated up by 3,000°C—faster than most stars but…
Published on 4 weeks 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 ridges on its surface, scientists linked these features…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days 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 Martian winds, has now passed both wind-tunnel and fiel…
Published on 1 month 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 atmospheric halo.
From its vantage at Lagrange Point 1…
Published on 1 month ago
Venus Unveiled: The Secret Behind Its Crown-Like Landscapes
Season 2 Episode 245
Discover new research revealing how magmatic energy and a mantle “glass ceiling” may explain Venus’s strange crown-like surface features—and what this means for understanding planetary evolution and …
Published on 1 month ago
20 Billion Stars and Counting - NASA's Quest to Map Our Entire Galaxy
Season 2 Episode 244
Get ready for the most ambitious mapping project in human history. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is preparing to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way by cataloging an unprecede…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The Harsh Math of Finding Life in the Galaxy
Season 2 Episode 243
In this episode, we dive into groundbreaking research from the Austrian Academy of Sciences that challenges our assumptions about extraterrestrial life. Scientists have crunched the numbers on what i…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Cracking the Cosmic Code: The Universe's Secrets at Warp
Season 2 Episode 242
The universe is a vast and intricate place, and understanding its complex "cosmic web" is one of science's greatest challenges. In this episode, we'll explore how scientists use the Effective Field T…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago