Feb 11, 2021 | Cassini, Climate Change, Daily Space, Earth, Galaxies, Mars, OSIRIS-REx, Saturn, Stars
Scientists collected fresh data on Orion’s bright star Betelgeuse to try and understand this star that caused so much controversy last year. They found it’s smaller than previously calculated, and last year’s dimming was likely caused by dust, but it’s also more...
Jan 7, 2021 | Asteroids, Crewed Space, Curiosity, Daily Space, JAXA, Mars, OSIRIS-REx, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Rovers, Soyuz, Space China, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Uncategorized
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches and missions that happened last year, including test flights and first flights, mission launches and discoveries, and all...
Nov 11, 2020 | Asteroids, Astrobiology, Exoplanets, Fast Radio Bursts, Jupiter, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, OSIRIS-REx, Planets
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript This is the Daily Space for today, Tuesday, November 10, 2020. I am your host, Dr. Pamela Gay. I am your host, Beth Johnson. And we are here to put science in your brain. Today’s science is largely radioed...
Nov 1, 2020 | AAS, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, JAXA, Jupiter, Neptune, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Titan, Uranus
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Yesterday, we talked about the accelerated timeline for OSIRIS-REx to stow the sample from Bennu. And we said we would update you all once we had new information. Of course, right after we went off the air...
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...
Oct 23, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Jupiter, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System
Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Those of you who know me know that I have a favorite small body in our solar system: Jupiter’s moon Io. It is covered in volcanoes. Its surface is constantly being re-covered by lava. And plate tectonics is...