Astronomy News
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA monthly round up of the latest news in astronomy.
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Episodes
The news - December 2021
December 18, 2021 16:00 - 6 minutes - 5.62 MBThis month in the news: the Decadal Review, iodine propulsion and the launch of DART
The news - May 2021
May 21, 2021 17:30 - 5 minutes - 2.46 MBThis month in the news: a gravitationally lensed baby galaxy, flight on Mars, the biggest ever stellar flare, and some groundbreaking gravitational wave predictions.
The news - December 2020
December 19, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 2.47 MBThis month in the news: {topic}
The news - November 2020
December 02, 2020 18:00 - 4 minutes - 2.01 MBThis month in the news: water on the moon and getting in touch with Voyager.
The news - October 2020
October 28, 2020 14:00 - 7 minutes - 3.42 MBThis month in the news: In the news this month, water under the surface of mars and measurements of radiation on the moon.
The news - September 2020
September 21, 2020 11:30 - 4 minutes - 1.86 MBThis month in the news: {topic}
The news - August 2020
August 07, 2020 16:30 - 5 minutes - 2.55 MBThis month in the news: the recovery from the COVID-19 epidemic, and the delay of the James Web Space Telescope.
The news - March 2020
March 16, 2020 15:00 - 3 minutes - 1.59 MBThis month in the news: In the news this Month: Telescopes detect the biggest explosion since the big bang in the Ophiuchus Supercluster, the Insight lander detects 174 Marsquakes, and a second planet is found around our closest star, Proxima Centauri.
The news - February 2020
February 19, 2020 15:00 - 3 minutes - 1.69 MBThis month in the news: This month in the news: The Spitzer telescope reaches its final days, the National Science Foundation releases the most detailed images of the Sun ever, and SpaceX launches 60 new starlink satellites, with one “experimentally darkened” to lower the light pollution impact.
The news - January 2020
January 27, 2020 14:00 - 7 minutes - 3.23 MBThis month in the news: the launch and testing of the CHEOPS mission and a possibly volcanically active Venus.
The news - December 2019
December 10, 2019 11:00 - 6 minutes - 2.78 MBThis month in the news: The potential discovery of a new fundamental force carrying particle, and exploring the possibility of planets orbiting black holes.
The news - November 2019
November 15, 2019 09:00 - 4 minutes - 2.26 MBThis month in the news: a historic spacewalk, a water-carrying visitor passes by, and a new method of detecting black holes.
The news - October 2019
October 11, 2019 14:00 - 3 minutes - 1.52 MBThis month in the news: an unexpectedly large planet around a small star, a visitor from outside the solar system, a lost lunar lander, and water in the atmosphere of a super-earth.
The news - September 2019
September 13, 2019 20:00 - 8 minutes - 3.72 MBThis month in the news: Chandrayaan 2 detaches its lander, a synthetic catalogue of galaxies, and a 3D printed binocular telescope
The news - August 2019
August 08, 2019 12:00 - 6 minutes - 2.8 MBThis month in the news: Protests over the thirty metre telescope in Hawaii and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.
The news - July 2019
July 11, 2019 20:30 - 4 minutes - 2 MBThis month in the news: planets in progress, mystery molecules, and oceans under ice.
The news - June 2019
June 07, 2019 11:00 - 7 minutes - 3.24 MBThis month in the news: a star from far, far away, Moon news a-plenty, and updates from the New Horizon spacecraft's flyby of MU69.
The news - May 2019
May 10, 2019 18:00 - 6 minutes - 2.8 MBThis month in the news: the updated LIGO is back, TESS found its first Earth-sized exoplanet and Israel's plan for the Beresheeft 2 lunar lander.
The news - April 2019
April 01, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes - 2.82 MBThis month in the news: the asteroids we're visiting, the one that quietly visited us, and a new method of Martian exploration.
The news - March 2019
March 08, 2019 17:00 - 8 minutes - 3.9 MBThis month in the news: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe, Israel's Beresheeft lunar craft, and a fond farewell to Opportunity.
The news - February 2019
February 11, 2019 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.33 MBThis month in the news: the United States government shutdown and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope
The news - January 2019
January 16, 2019 10:00 - 5 minutes - 2.31 MBThis month in the news: The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the recent New Horizons fly-by, and the Chinese Moon landing.
The news - December 2018
December 07, 2018 09:00 - 5 minutes - 2.49 MBThis month in the news: a gamma ray burst candidate, the Sun's long-lost twin, and black holes in virtual reality.
The news - November 2018
November 09, 2018 11:00 - 4 minutes - 2.3 MBThis month in the news: the slowest-spinning pulsar ever discovered, elusive dust clouds around the Earth finally detected and the Hubble Space Telescope returns.
The news - October 2018
October 11, 2018 10:00 - 5 minutes - 2.44 MBThis month in the news: Hayabusa-2 rovers, black holes and the woman who discovered Pulsers
The news - September 2018
September 14, 2018 15:00 - 9 minutes - 4.32 MBThis month in the news: NASA goes all-American - again, the launch of the Parker solar probe, and getting in touch with Opportunity.
The news - August 2018
August 07, 2018 09:00 - 6 minutes - 3.17 MBThis month in the news: K2 is forced to hibernate, a particle appears in Antarctica and a new scale for close encounters.
The news - July 2018
July 24, 2018 15:00 - 3 minutes - 1.58 MBThis month in the news: a LIGO afterglow, complex organics from Enceladus, and Prof. Hawking takes on eternal inflation.
The news - June 2018
June 08, 2018 14:00 - 5 minutes - 2.7 MBThis month in the news: Dark galaxies discovered by astronomers, a new theory about Pluto's formation and the launch of MeerLICHT telescope in South Africa.
The news - May 2018
May 16, 2018 11:00 - 4 minutes - 2.17 MBThis month in the news: The launch of NASA's TESS observatory, a detailed view of a supermassive black hole's jets and revealing planet-forming disks around young stars.
The news - April 2018
March 31, 2018 23:00 - 3 minutes - 1.71 MBThis month in the news: ARIEL is cleared for launch, galaxies are found to be on time, and unusual elements are sighted in the Galactic bulge.
The news - March 2018
March 01, 2018 15:00 - 5 minutes - 2.79 MBThis month in the news: the most distant supernova ever discovered, the discovery of some of the most massive black holes in the universe and water content in the TRAPPIST-1 planets.
The news - February 2018
February 06, 2018 09:00 - 5 minutes - 2.71 MBThis month in the news: the extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the source of the repeating Fast Radio Burst, exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes, and the first definitive interstellar detection of benzonitrile.
The news - January 2018
January 08, 2018 20:00 - 5 minutes - 2.77 MBThis month in the news: The death of a space pioneer, A solar system to rival our own and The key to Jupiter's winds
The news - December 2017
December 04, 2017 19:00 - 7 minutes - 3.23 MBThis month in the news: a visiting asteroid, a new temperate world, and a lifeline for Arecibo.
The News - November 2017
November 07, 2017 11:00 - 6 minutes - 2.9 MBThis month in the news: Cassini; gone but not forgotten, the possible discovery of an exomoon and major results from LIGO.
The news - October 2017
October 04, 2017 03:10 - 6 minutes - 3.11 MBThis month in the news: LIGO-VIRGO and Arecibo Observatory
The News - September 2017
September 15, 2017 14:30 - 7 minutes - 3.4 MBIn the news this month (more) gravitational wave rumours, Voyager celebrates 40 years in space, and an amazing new image of Antares.
The News - August 2017
August 11, 2017 13:00 - 4 minutes - 2.16 MBThis August in the news: A decade of citizen science, the Moon is wetter than we thought, and space salads
The news - July 2017
July 05, 2017 18:00 - 8 minutes - 4.01 MBThis month in the news:SpaceX launch, exoplanets and relativity
The news - June 2017
June 10, 2017 19:00 - 8 minutes - 3.82 MBThis month in the news: the supernova that wasn't, the search for Fast Radio bursts continues, and the amateur astronomers moving into radio astronomy.
The news - May 2017
May 14, 2017 18:00 - 10 minutes - 4.91 MBThis month in the news: Cassini begins its Grand Finale, cosmologists debate a cold spot, and scientists go on the march.
The news - April 2017
April 01, 2017 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.63 MBThis month in the news: The fast, the past, and the future.