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How NASA's Pandora Satellite Is Reading the Atmospheres of Alien Worlds
Season 3 Episode 298
What's in the atmosphere of distant exoplanets? NASA's Pandora satellite is about to tell us. Launched via SpaceX, this refrigerator-sized spacecraft…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Black Hole Mystery: Solving the Gravitational Wave Puzzle
Season 3 Episode 297
Scientists at CU Boulder have solved a major mystery in gravitational wave science. International experiments detected these cosmic ripples in space-…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Europa's Hidden Problem: New Research Challenges Jupiter Moon's Habitability
Season 3 Episode 296
Jupiter's moon Europa has long captivated scientists as one of the solar system's best bets for finding alien life. With its vast subsurface ocean co…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
New Space Telescope Could Finally Detect Alien Moons Around Distant Planets
Season 3 Episode 295
Scientists have unveiled plans for a revolutionary telescope system that could finally answer one of astronomy's biggest questions: do moons orbit pl…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Celestial Fizzle: When Stars Fail to Explode
Season 3 Episode 294
What happens when a star doesn't quite explode? Astronomers studying supernova remnant Pa 30 discovered something strange—perfectly straight, firewor…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Runaway Stars Escaping the Milky Way: How Black Holes Launch Suns Into the Void
Season 2 Episode 293
Chinese astronomers just discovered 90 stars moving so fast they're escaping our galaxy forever. These hypervelocity stars—flung out by close encount…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Did Life on Earth Come From Mars? The Panspermia Hypothesis Explained
Season 2 Episode 292
What if we're all Martians? The panspermia hypothesis proposes that life didn't start on Earth—it hitched a ride here on Martian meteorites billions …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
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…
1 month, 3 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 …
1 month, 4 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…
1 month, 4 weeks ago