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Ep 140: A candidate Jupiter-sized moon orbiting far beyond our solar system is forcing astronomers to redraw the line between planets and moons.
Season 1 Episode 140
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A candidate Jupiter-sized moon orbiting far beyond our solar system is forcing…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 139: A European spacecraft just cleared its final major test before hunting Earth-like worlds around Sun-like stars.
Season 1 Episode 139
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A European spacecraft just cleared its final major test before hunting Earth-l…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 138: Astronomers have watched a distant galaxy's central black hole erupt for the first time in real time after two prior outbursts went unseen until they faded.
Season 1 Episode 138
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have watched a distant galaxy's central black hole erupt for the f…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 137: Fifty years after Viking 1 touched down on Mars, new missions are shifting focus from the surface to the thin air above the Red Planet.
Season 1 Episode 137
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Fifty years after Viking 1 touched down on Mars, new missions are shifting foc…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 136: NASA's Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a gravitational slingshot, returning a rich dataset that will sharpen its approach to a metal world never visited before.
Season 1 Episode 136
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News NASA's Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a gravitational slingshot, returnin…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 135: A private Indian rocket just reached orbit on its first try while a NASA probe wakes up billions of miles out.
Season 1 Episode 135
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News A private Indian rocket just reached orbit on its first try while a NASA probe…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 134: Astronomers report signs of an atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone 48 light-years away, a first for planets of its kind.
Season 1 Episode 134
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers report signs of an atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 133: Astronomers have directly imaged a third giant planet in the Beta Pictoris system by spotting its carbon monoxide signature with JWST.
Season 1 Episode 133
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Astronomers have directly imaged a third giant planet in the Beta Pictoris sys…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 132: China's Tianwen-2 probe has reached a near-Earth asteroid after a billion-kilometre chase, raising the possibility that the target is a long-lost lunar fragment.
Season 1 Episode 132
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News China's Tianwen-2 probe has reached a near-Earth asteroid after a billion-kilo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 131: Four new NASA missions will help turn the Moon into a permanent base while another rover just ran a full marathon on Mars.
Season 1 Episode 131
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Four new NASA missions will help turn the Moon into a permanent base while ano…
1 month, 2 weeks ago