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Micrometeorite Damage Under the Microscope
A new study by a team from MIT has shed light on the physical processes that take place when tiny…
How Fast is Mach One?
While we tend to think of Mach One as being the speed it takes to break the sound barrier, its…
Is Time To Go Back to Uranus and Neptune? Revisiting Ice Giants of the Solar System
We’ve only seen Uranus and Neptune one time up close. There are now some mission ideas in the works that…
Flying Into the Sun? NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Mission
NASA is planning a mission to get as close as possible as we can to the Sun and reveal its…
What Are Fast Radio Bursts?
Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they?…
What Did Cassini Teach Us?
In just a few months, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is going to die, crashing into the planet Saturn. Let's look back…
Colonizing the Outer Solar System
This episode continues our team up with Fraser Cain to look at Colonizing the Solar System, we move from the…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 425: Naming Spacecraft
Have you ever noticed spacecraft missions have some pretty cool names? How does anyone decide what to call these things?…
Where Are All The Alien Robots?
As you know, I’m obsessed about the Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? But an even stranger question is:…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 414: Navigating Far
In our last episode, we talked about what it'll take to navigate across the Solar System. In this episode we…