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Universe Today Podcast

by Fraser Cain
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Today: #21 in Science, New Zealand on our combined chart.

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Latest episodes

  • [Interview+] Going Beyond Hubble and Roman to Find Planets With Atmospheres

    October 21, 2026 · 37 min

    BONUS PART STARST AT 21:45 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pWm2Wsv_wVc A new mission that was just proposed to NASA is an extreme UV telescope that will observe hundreds of stars to find the conditions for planets…

  • [Q&A+] Why Are There No Binary Planets?

    October 21, 2026 · 22 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:22 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MhJFyC_vdtk Why are there no binary planets? Should you buy into dark energy and dark matter? What apps are best for stargazing? And in Q&A+…

  • [Space Bites+] Turns Out, Hypernovae Might Not Exist At All

    October 17, 2026 · 20 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 14:37 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qpthhx9svK8 Do hypernovae actually exist? The science is in from the Artemis 2 mission. A second generation planet found around a white dwarf. Starship…

  • [Q&A+] Should We Still Be Worried About The Apophis Asteroid?

    October 15, 2026 · 22 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:25 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/99euKNYNKIE Are interferometers the future of telescopes? Can we aim at stars by knowing only where they were billions of years ago? Is the…

  • [Q&A+] Why Won't NASA Just Buy Falcon 9 from SpaceX?

    October 14, 2026 · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:14 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bmthiCOpbMQ If SpaceX no longer want Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon, why won't NASA just buy them for themselves? What would a perfect space…

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  • [Space Bites+] Finally, A NASA Mission To Explore Lava Tubes

    October 9, 2026 · 24 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 17:14 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/S7Vbh0p5Vfc Team Human https://www.teamhuman.org/ A Moon lava tube mission. Remnants of the Moon’s magnetosphere. Where are the wondering supermassive…

  • [Q&A+] How Realistic Are Mars Colonizations Plans?

    October 9, 2026 · 22 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 17:42 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_h8kKdiHe8 Why do star shades look like flowers? Is Mars colonization just a Ponzi Scheme? Why would it be worth doing? And on Q&A+, should…

  • [Interview+] Two Football Fields of Solar Sail in One Rocket | NIAC 2026

    October 7, 2026 · 47 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 25:44 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube https://youtu.be/B8xbSUstIhA 🟣 Guest: Dr. Artur Davoyan https://samueli.ucla.edu/people/artur-davoyan/ Solar sails are great. It's a propulsion method that doesn't require…

  • [Q&A+] What’s The Best Way To Go Under The Ice of Europa?

    October 6, 2026 · 19 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 14:37 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eLHeqk2Yh1Q How bright is space? What's the best way to go under the ice on Europa? Are there new gravitational wave detectors in the works?…

  • [Space Bites+] This Telescope Will Do What JWST and Roman Can't

    October 2, 2026 · 21 min

    BONUS STORY STARTS AT 15:56 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y9Iknlzbn5s NASA is working on a new far-infrared space telescope, Starship finally makes it to orbit, a nuclear reactor for the Moon, and an exoplanet…

  • [Q&A+] What Does The Milky Way Orbit?

    October 1, 2026 · 21 min

    BONUS QUESTION STARTS AT 15:23 Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BWKrIT28Uk0 We orbit the Sun, Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, but what does the Milky Way orbit? Can we still catch up with Oumuamua?…

  • [Interview+] How Good Was Our Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Really?

    September 30, 2026 · 59 min

    BONUS PART STARTS AT 43:25 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/izP3FsO9u8o PBS Spacetime video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OM0zTfdsPo Professor David Kipping's channel:  @CoolWorldsLab  We've done a lot of…

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