Astronomers have detected an incredibly faint hydrogen signal from billions of light-years away using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope.The observation opens a new way to study the distant universe and could transform how scientists trace the evolution and structure of galaxies across cosmic time.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy breakthroughs.This episode includes AI-generated

Why does Venus have no moon, despite being so similar to Earth?Scientists used simulations spanning billions of years to investigate what may have happened to a hypothetical satellite—and the results reveal a fascinating difference in the evolutionary paths of our two planetary neighbors.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy breakthroughs.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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What if the first evidence of an advanced alien civilization isn’t a message, but a star whose energy books don’t quite balance?This week, we explore the strange history and surprisingly real science of Dyson spheres, from Olaf Stapledon and Freeman Dyson to the unforgettable Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Relics.” We’ll learn why a vast swarm of orbiting collectors makes more sense than a solid shell, and how astronomers search for the missing starlight and excess infrared heat such a

Join Jordan and Kit as they explore the myths and lore surrounding the constellation Lupus before waxing poetic and letting the Oracle take its best shot at a myth to capture your mind, heart, and soul!Episode transcripts: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/episode-transcripts Website: https://www.starrytimepodcast.com/ Social: https://universeodon.com/@starrytimepod Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/starrytimepod Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:57 Background and History 04:41 Myths and Lore about

You can learn more about The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/3qDN30hIvdb Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Some see string theory as the one great hope for a theory of everything – that it will unite quantum mechanics and gravity and so unify all of physics into one glorious theory. You can further support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Get your own Space Time t­-shirt at

Did you know there names of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and sculptors given to craters on Mercury? Yes indeed! You'll have to listen to our broadcast to find out who's made the list!It is, as we say here on Good Heavens!, the human side of astronomy. And we think it's an entirely appropriate connection to link creators to a planet which is itself a work of art from THE Creator of the heavens and earth, our Lord Jesus Christ (Genesis 1; John 1; Colossians 1; Hebrews 1). So come and

Today's episode — The Weekend Wrap, Saturday 12 September 2026: OUR LEAD: A SMALLER MERCURY Mercury has been contracting for four and a half billion years as its huge iron core cools, and it writes the record on its own surface — in long lobe-fronted cliffs called lobate scarps, where one slab of crust has ridden up over another. Add up all that shortening and you get the total contraction. The trouble was that the surface record always gave a smaller number than thermal models predicted. New work

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar cloud, G+0.633, near the center of the Milky Way containing more than 120 molecular species, including compounds linked to RNA and the chemistry of life.Its similarities to another chemically rich cloud suggest that the complex ingredients needed for biology may form naturally in many regions of our galaxy.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy

Today's episode — The Weekend Wrap, Saturday 12 September 2026: OUR LEAD: A SMALLER MERCURY Mercury has been contracting for four and a half billion years as its huge iron core cools, and it writes the record on its own surface — in long lobe-fronted cliffs called lobate scarps, where one slab of crust has ridden up over another. Add up all that shortening and you get the total contraction. The trouble was that the surface record always gave a smaller number than thermal models predicted. New work

Astronomers at Vilnius University are using artificial intelligence to uncover rare hot subdwarfs hidden within Gaia’s enormous star catalog.A convolutional neural network can identify these unusual stripped-down stellar cores in seconds, opening a new way to study how these mysterious binary systems evolve.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy breakthroughs.This episode includes

University of Utah doctoral student Colin Domnauer discusses new research linking reports of vivid “tiny people” hallucinations to a single mushroom species — and what the discovery could reveal about an unidentified hallucinogenic compound.

MIT engineer Amos Winter discusses how to design affordable, high-performance products that can succeed in different global markets. Drawing on examples from eye care, prosthetics, mobility and clean water, Winter explains how engineers can create innovations that scale and make a lasting impact.

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The sun is our closest laboratory for understanding how stars work. Decades of space missions have studied the sun, yet its outer atmosphere, the corona, remains a mystery. NASA's Parker Solar Probe was built to change that. Dean Regas talks with Dr. Joe Westlake, heliophysics division director at NASA Headquarters, about what we're learning from humanity's closest approach to a star.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by science educator and author Trisha Muro to discuss her book, It's (Just) Rocket Science: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions.

BONUS STORY STARTS AT 16:05Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fA75k6U2HYgIs this a supernova ready to explode, or is it just a trick of the light. A mission to Halley’s Comet in 2060. An amazing new image from Vera Rubin. Webb fails to find an exomoon. And in Space Bites Plus, some black holes formed much faster than their galaxies. All this and more in this week’s Space Bites.00:00 Intro 00:36 Supernova Impostor

Today's episode — S05E191, Friday September 11, 2026: Main story: A population-synthesis study published in Nature Astronomy on 10 September argues that magnetars make up roughly half of all neutron stars, not the one-in-a-hundred implied by the catalogues. Celsa Pardo-Araujo and Nanda Rea (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE-CSIC, Barcelona) with Michele Ronchi (ASTRON) and Vanessa Graber (Royal Holloway) modelled the whole isolated-neutron-star population as one family rather than four separate

Today's episode — S05E191, Friday September 11, 2026: Main story: A population-synthesis study published in Nature Astronomy on 10 September argues that magnetars make up roughly half of all neutron stars, not the one-in-a-hundred implied by the catalogues. Celsa Pardo-Araujo and Nanda Rea (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE-CSIC, Barcelona) with Michele Ronchi (ASTRON) and Vanessa Graber (Royal Holloway) modelled the whole isolated-neutron-star population as one family rather than four separate

Astronomers have discovered exocomets orbiting the young star PDS 70, offering a rare glimpse into planetary systems during their formation.Their inward migration may reveal how comets transported water and other essential ingredients toward developing planets—and perhaps how similar processes shaped the early Earth.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy breakthroughs.This episode includes