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BREAKING NEWS – Arecibo Telescope Platform Collapses

Dec 3, 2020 | Asteroids, Cosmology, Daily Space, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Moon, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, Space China, Spacecraft, Stars, Supernovae, The Sun

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Due to breaking news, our lead story is about the collapse of the Arecibo telescope platform and its dish. Plus magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, sunspots, asteroids, dark matter, and a Kickstarter to preserve an...

NASA’s SOFIA telescope reports water found in sunlit crater on Moon

Oct 29, 2020 | AAS, Artemis, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Galaxies, KBOs, Moon, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Venus in Minecraft. CREDIT: Kieri-Aniis Last weekend we streamed for 36 straight hours during the CosmoQuest Hangout-a-thon 2020. Our goals were to build a scale model of the solar system in Minecraft...

Mission update: Psyche; new tech; and a special Mars photo

Sep 1, 2020 | Asteroids, Curiosity, Daily Space, Mars, Moon, Spacecraft

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript No need to check your calendars, everyone. It really is Tuesday. Pamela and I have traded days this week for a couple of reasons: 1) almost all the press releases we got yesterday are embargoed until...

Stellar eggs; Hubble uses lunar eclipse to detect Earth’s oxygen; Arecibo goes back to work after hurricane; Perseid meteor shower

Aug 10, 2020 | Astrobiology, Daily Space, Earth, ESA, Moon, Observatories, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s top story is one that someday, some science fiction writer needs to use as inspiration for the third act of an asteroid attack story. In early July, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System,...

Impacts shock Cubic Zirconia on the Moon; Mars will Kill Earth Life; & Black Hole Jet Warps Galactic Bridge

May 12, 2020 | Daily Space, Mars, Moon, Supermassive Black Holes

A couple of quick notes from Dr. Pamela We’re going to be taking next Mon-Wed-Fri off streaming the Daily Space while we take time to do some needed maintenance behind the scenes. There will still be stuff going on, and when I can, I’ll share it all with you! On...

Yale’s EXPRES looks to the skies of a scorching, distant planet, a new model explains the unique characteristics of Arrokoth, interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight, and new comprehensive geologic map of the moon released

Apr 24, 2020 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Moon, Podcast

Yale’s Extreme PREcision Spectrometer (EXPRES) is giving a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet, a model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tübingen, explains the unique properties of...