Jeni visits Space Forge and talk to CEO Joshua Western about that fateful launch from Cornwall on Virgin’s Cosmic Girl & an update on their mission to build reusable satellites to manufacture materials.
How does a black hole make a shadow? What can we learn from it? What are we seeing when we look at a black hole? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Whenever astronomers discover something surprising, the answer often turns out to be dust. Dust obscuring our view, dust changing the polarity, dust warming things up, dust cooling things down. It’s always dust. Until it isn’t.
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system and earth like planets being discovered circling red dwarf stars.
Is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics science? While we may not be able to say what exactly science is, I can say that I prefer to have my science with a little bit of data. For me to recognize science when I see it, it has to come with some observations or something verifiable
Join us today as @ivie97 interview Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck, the former IAU President about her research and works in astronomy
Today’s show is about the idea of space force to deal with the future warfighting in space. It turns out, this already exists, space is already well militarized.
From plastics invading the Arctic Ocean to the changing morphology of birds in response to rising temperatures and the problems with pathogens killing off pollinators like bees, we examine some of the effects of climate change on Earth’s ecosystems.
How far away do you think the Moon is? It looks deceptively large and close in the sky.But here we’ll show you what will happen to the Moon, how far away it is and how we know with such accuracy.
We’ve spent a lot of time gushing about Saturn’s rings, but there are other places with ring systems. And not just Jupiter and the ice giants, but asteroids, dwarf planets, centaurs and even exoplanets. Today let’s gush about them!