Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley

Dark Matter Detection, a Space Rescue, and Period Research | S05E121

Dark Matter Detection, a Space Rescue, and Period Research | S05E121

🔭 ASTRONOMY DAILY | S05E121 | Monday 22 June 2026 Dark matter hiding around black holes, the Swift rescue countdown, a supernova ghost at our galaxy's heart, and a farewell to one of Mars's greatest ...

China's Spacecraft Just Reached a Mysterious Near-Earth Asteroid

China's Spacecraft Just Reached a Mysterious Near-Earth Asteroid

🌌 Astronomy Daily S05E120 — Weekend Space & Astronomy News Wrap | Saturday 20 June 2026 This weekend: a 1976 ocean rock yields atomic proof of an ancient neutron star collision, Ariane 6 smashes its ...

Salty Skies on a Pink Planet, Black Holes Burp, and a Lunar Lander for Moon Base 2

Salty Skies on a Pink Planet, Black Holes Burp, and a Lunar Lander for Moon Base 2

Welcome back to Astronomy Daily! In today's episode, Anna and Avery cover six of the biggest stories in space and astronomy for Friday June nineteenth, twenty twenty-six — from a salty surprise on a m...

A Milky Way Fossil Unearthed, Extreme Weather on a Roasted Planet, and a Space Telescope's Last C...

A Milky Way Fossil Unearthed, Extreme Weather on a Roasted Planet, and a Space Telescope's Last C...

A landmark episode packed with discoveries at the cutting edge of space and astronomy. Webb and Hubble redefine a category of stellar object, JWST delivers unprecedented chemistry data from an extreme...

Rockets Across Continents, A Black Hole's Jet Unveiled, and Rain of Rubies on Distant World

Rockets Across Continents, A Black Hole's Jet Unveiled, and Rain of Rubies on Distant World

A launch-packed Wednesday kicks off with two rocket milestones — SpaceX's BlueBird 8-10 direct-to-cell satellite launch and Ariane 6's record-breaking Amazon Leo flight — followed by a splashdown upda...

JWST Solves the Mystery of the 'Little Red Dots' | Space News

JWST Solves the Mystery of the 'Little Red Dots' | Space News

Six stories. One giant universe. Let's go. Today on Astronomy Daily: the four-year cosmic mystery of JWST's "little red dots" has finally been solved — and the answer is stranger than anyone expected....