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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…
2 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…
2 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…
2 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…
2 months ago
Primordial Explosions: Solving the Dark Matter Neutrino Mystery
Season 3 Episode 311
This episode explores a bold proposal suggesting a record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have come from the explosion of a primordial black h…
2 months ago
AI Takes the Wheel: Autonomous Driving on Mars
Season 3 Episode 311
This episode explores how NASA’s Perseverance rover completed its first Mars drives guided by generative AI.
Using vision-language models to analyze o…
2 months, 1 week ago
JWST’s Quintet: Five-Galaxy Merger in the Early Universe
Season 3 Episode 309
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, this episode explores a rare five-galaxy merger seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. Known…
2 months, 1 week ago
Stellar Flares Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Season 3 Episode 308
This episode explores how the South Pole Telescope detected powerful millimeter-wave stellar flares near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
Trig…
2 months, 1 week ago
Einstein’s Law and the Dearth of Two-Sun Planets
Season 3 Episode 307
New astrophysical research suggests that general relativity helps explain why planets are rare in binary star systems. As close stellar pairs evolve,…
2 months, 1 week ago
A Dark Matter Sheet Shapes the Motion of the Milky Way
Season 3 Episode 306
New research suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda lie within a vast, flat sheet of dark matter stretching millions of light-years. Using detailed com…
2 months, 2 weeks ago