Space
Buried in the data from European Space Agency’s Gaia Survey satellite, astronomers from Leiden University in the Netherlands discov ...
Air Date: October 16, 2018
Listen 04:31For sale! Certified lunar meteorite — weight 12 pounds — mileage 250,000
A Boston-based online auction house began accepting bids Thursday on a rare lunar meteorite at $50,000.
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Scientists who confirmed the existence of 2015 TG387 out beyond the Kuiper Belt believe its orbit offers the best evidence of the existe ...
Air Date: October 9, 2018
Listen 06:02Gaia, a galactic surveyor spacecraft, has caught our galaxy doing “the wave!” Studies of one billion stars show a wave-like m ...
Air Date: October 1, 2018
Listen 06:26You’ve been to Mars and a comet; Japan’s space agency invites you to an asteroid
"Enjoy 'standing' on the surface of this asteroid!" Japan's space agency, JAXA, wrote on their Twitter post containing the video.
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A group of researchers, including the Principle Investigator for the New Horizons program, Alan Stern, have found that after a review of ...
Air Date: September 17, 2018
Listen 05:4352 years ago, the television show Star Trek premiered! It spawned a whole new approach to space exploration and had an impact on ...
Air Date: September 11, 2018
Listen 05:13Our Milky Way is thought to have originally formed shortly after the birth of the universe, 13.5 billion years ago. Built from the first ...
Air Date: September 3, 2018
Listen 05:13NASA Science Visualization Labs’ Ernie Wright has created a beautiful visual compliment to De Bussey’s classic piano composition, ...
Air Date: August 27, 2018
Listen 06:30The successor to the highly successful Kepler planet-hunting satellite TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) sent the first data d ...
Air Date: August 20, 2018
Listen 05:39Time to Start Spotting Sunspots
The current (approximately 11-year-long) Solar Cycle is about to come to an end. Several years of long stretches of days without sunspot ...
Air Date: August 13, 2018
Listen 07:40NASA braves the heat to get up close and personal with our sun
Early Saturday morning, if all goes as planned, 91-year-old Eugene Parker will watch a NASA spacecraft named after him blast off on an unprecedented mission to study the sun.
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Shooting star watch: How to stargaze the Perseid meteor shower
This weekend will offer some of the best stargazing of the year.
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NASA announces crew for first commercial space flights
In 2019, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule and Boeing's CST-100 Starliner are both scheduled to blast off on test flights with NASA astronauts on board.
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Trump wants a Space Force, but Pentagon has different idea
The administration intends to announce next week the results of a Pentagon study.
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