Stars like our Sun will spend billions of years fusing together hydrogen and pumping out energy. And when the fuel runs out, their death is as interesting as their birth. This week Fraser and Pamela trace out this stellar evolution, and explain what the future holds for stars, large and small
We’ve talked about the Moon and its water many times here on Astronomy Cast, but there’ve been a bunch of big updates thanks to new research from NASA and others. Today we’re gonna give you an update on the state of water on the Moon and the plans to take advantage of it.
All eyes are on the Moon. We’re going back, this time to stay, right? One of the best resources on the Moon will be the lava tubes that criss-cross the subsurface of the Moon.
So the Moon is about to become a very busy place with multiple countries and private companies planning missions in the next few years. It’s time for the Artemis Accords!
As scientists continue to explore the Earth, they’re discovering life, surviving and even thriving in extreme environments. What hints can this give us about what we might find as we search for live on other worlds.
Astronomers are finding even more new extrasolar planets and they’re starting to discover entirely new categories.
How did we get from plain old hydrogen to our current diversity? It came from stars, in fact successive generations of stars.
This time we’re going to talk about Pluto, its moons, the Kuiper belt, and the other icy objects that inhabit the outer Solar System.
So with a sample of asteroid Bennu firmly inside OSIRIS-REx’s return capsule, it’s time to bring this treasure home. But it’s not the only sample return mission out there, with Japan’s Hayabusa II mission also bringing asteroid debris home. So today, let’s talk about the missions and what we’ve learned so far.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three brilliant researchers who worked out some of the secrets of black holes. Today we’re going to talk about the chain of discoveries that led to this award.