Bedtime Astronomy

SpaceX’s Starship enters another critical phase as its 14th flight attempts to push the massive spacecraft closer to true orbital operations.

The mission combines next-generation Starlink satellites with crucial tests of speed, gravity, reusability, and atmospheric return. After previous setbacks, this flight could reveal how close Starship really is to becoming the foundation for future missions to the Moon and Mars.

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Tune in to explore a milestone in astronomy: for the first time, scientists have detected direct radio signals from an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.

Learn how researchers used distant quasars as cosmic GPS to measure the massive planet's intense magnetic field and hear what this breakthrough means for the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system.  

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered evidence that water transformed Mars in at least three distinct episodes. In Jezero Crater’s Margin Unit, the rover found igneous rocks containing carbonates and silica—clues to ancient groundwater, a long-vanished lake, and later heated fluids underground.

The discovery reveals a far more complex watery history for Mars and raises new questions about whether its ancient environments could have supported microbial life.

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Cornell students have successfully tested tiny solar sails in orbit using miniature ChipSats and 3D-printed spacecraft. Their Alpha CubeSat and Sailing to the Stars missions demonstrated how sunlight can propel ultra-light spacecraft, while testing low-cost navigation and deployment technologies.

Could these tiny sails become a stepping stone toward future missions across the solar system—and eventually interstellar space?

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A new study suggests Venus may once have had a moon that eventually spiraled inward and crashed into the planet.

Simulations show that Venus’s slow rotation could make moons unstable, offering a possible explanation for its unusual evolution and raising questions about moons around other slowly rotating planets.

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