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From Micro to Interstellar: The Future of Optical Propulsion
Season 3 Episode 400
Researchers at Texas A&M University have created micron-scale “metajets” that use laser light for precise, contactless 3D movement. Built from engine…
2 months, 1 week ago
Between Planet and Star: Cracking the Age of a Brown Dwarf
Season 3 Episode 399
Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough by precisely dating a brown dwarf—a faint object that exists between planets and stars. Instead of mea…
2 months, 1 week ago
Voyager 1 Nears the Edge: NASA Shuts Down Systems to Keep It Alive
Season 3 Episode 398
Engineers recently powered down the Low-Energy Charged Particle (LECP) instrument to conserve its dwindling nuclear energy supply—part of a strategy …
2 months, 1 week ago
How the Moon Preserves the Origins of Life
Season 3 Episode 397
New analysis of samples from Chang'e-5 and Chang'e-6 has revealed complex nitrogen-bearing organic matter on the Moon—offering a rare glimpse into th…
2 months, 1 week ago
Cosmic Collisions Create a New Kind of Stellar Corpse
Season 3 Episode 396
Astronomers have identified a potential new class of stellar remnants after analyzing two unusual objects nicknamed “Gandalf” and “Moon-Sized.” Unlik…
2 months, 1 week ago
Mercury Rewritten: The Sulfur Planet
Season 3 Episode 395
New research from Rice University reveals that sulfur—not water or carbon—is the key driver behind Mercury’s unusual geology.
By recreating its oxygen…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Largest 3D Cosmic Map Ever Built
Season 3 Episode 394
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed the most detailed 3D map of the universe ever created, cataloging tens of millions of g…
2 months, 1 week ago
A Monster Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist
Season 3 Episode 393
Joint observations from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed ADF22.A1, a massive, fast-spinn…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside the Most Realistic Model of Galactic Evolution Yet
Season 3 Episode 392
The COLIBRE project delivers the most accurate simulations yet of how galaxies form and evolve, integrating complex elements like cosmic dust and col…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
PlanetWaves: Predicting Seas on Titan and Beyond
Season 3 Episode 391
Researchers at MIT have introduced PlanetWaves, a model that predicts how winds shape liquid surfaces across different worlds. The findings reveal dr…
2 months, 2 weeks ago