Space Nuts Podcast

The International Space Station is a busy place hosting ten crewmates from NASA, Roscosmos, and ESA (European Space Agency) through the end of July. The

The object looks like an asteroid but moves like a comet, so astronomers used some of the most powerful observatories on the planet to confirm its identity.

The crescent Moon visits Venus. We're in the peak month for "the Orion of Summer" and its Cat's Eyes. Elsewhere, Cassiopeia pokes up.

On 29 April 2020, a single stroke of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in one continuous 7.39-second flash — the world record, confirmed by satellite.

"To be confident of a good flight, 2 Raptors will be removed & replaced. Most probable launch timing is early next week."

The Milky Way’s predicted collision with Andromeda now looks more like a cosmic coin toss than a fixed destiny.

Space does not begin at a clean edge where Earth's air abruptly stops. The atmosphere thins continuously, molecule by molecule, until its outermost

Teams continue to progress through in-orbit preparations for the robotic servicing spacecraft designed to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher altitude.

"I think we're heading towards a situation where there will be a collision involving an operational satellite in the constellation."

Two teams of astronomers independently discovered a third giant gas planet orbiting in the famous Beta Pictoris system.

SpaceX will launch its next Starship, carrying the first V3 Starlink satellites, on the Flight 13 test mission on July 16.

NASA is teaming up with 37 companies to develop the next generation of technologies that could make long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars possible.

Just about two months after the first Block 3 Starship flight with Booster 19 and…

"The new planet is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b, the famous planet in the same system, making it the faintest exoplanet ever imaged directly from Earth."

This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.