Donald Trump's 'Space Force' becomes a reality, new kind of solar explosion, and is Betelgeuse about to explode?

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Pick o' the podcasts

Spacepod: Why we went to the Moon

Planetary Society: What's next for Mars exploration

Main engine Cut-off: Starliner and the 2020 US space budget

From the video store:

Christmas message from the ISS:

Potential sample sites for the Osiris-Rex mission on the asteroid Bennu:

China's space program back on track with Long March 5 rocket launch:

The search for our solar system's ninth planet:

A new kind of magnetic explosion on the Sun

Reading material:

Are we about to see a supernova at close range?

Christina Koch breaks the women's record for most time spent in space. 

Polar glaciers rapidly shrinking due to climate change

Iron 'snow' coats Earth's core

Landslides on Ceres point towards subsurface ice

Humanity's view of the heavens under threat?

Is Starlink blanketing the sky? First ever map of a pulsar, Boeing's new ship gets lost in space, and more...

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Planetary Radio: The biggest space policy moments of the decade.

Time To Eat The Dogs: Starlink is blanketing the Earth in Satellites

We Martians: Red Planet Review

From the video store:

First ever map of a pulsar's surface:

SpaceX launches another re-useable rocket, with its fastest turnaround time yet

Take a look at the site of NASA's touchdown on the asteroid Bennu:

Watch Boeing's 'Starliner' space capsule launch to orbit for the firsts time...


...and hear NASA's chief administrator explain how it's managed to get a bit lost on the way:

Reading material:

Be the first to catch a signal from ESA's new satellite

Report: A lunar farside observatory is entirely within NASA's reach 

An interesting new idea in interstellar propulsion research

ESA launches it's CHEOPS mission

Water vapour common in exoplanet atmospheres

The science of Rick and Morty

Exploring Titan, alien minerals, Blue Origin's 12th mission, and ESA chases space junk...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

365 days of astronomy: Dark flow... why we need to rename that.

Main Engine Cut Off: An interview with Dylan Taylor, Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings

Spacepod: Exploring Titan with Dr Soderblom

From the video store:

Blue Origin flies its 12th mission

SpaceX ships a 'robot hotel' to the ISS

Boeing's new capsule:

40+ years of Alaskan glaciers, viewed from Earth observing satellites

Reading material:

ESA to launch space junk capturing mission

Skeptoid: Were ancient tides miles high? Sadly for time travel movies probably not.

Bizarre alien 'minerals' based around organic ices

Rocket Labs achieves key step in booster reusability

How life survived snowball Earth: Glaciers

'Monster' black hole not so big

JUNO sees a septage of continent sized storms

Unexplained oxygen on Mars, Star Wars trailer, alcohol in space, space politics, weird structures near the Sun and much more!

Pick o' the podcasts

Weekly space hangout: 10 things you need to know about space

We Martians: The case of the inexplicable oxygen

Main Engine Cut Off: Space politics and lunar lander news

Planetary Radio: Alcohol in Space! 

From the video store:

The Parker Solar probe finds strange structures  near the Sun

Overfed black hole found in our galaxy

Asteroid  Bennu keeps firing particles into space...


New trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker:

Reading material:

Microgravity may slow the spread of some cancers

Leo Aerospace prepares to launch microsatellites using 'rockoons'

Gravitational waves may leave behind an echo.

Boeing's first test flight of its 'Starliner' spacecraft set for December 20th

The International Space Station is set to get a 'robot hotel'

 

Some microbes have a taste for meteorites

How Mars rovers changed our view of the red planet

Space satellites that fire harpoons and nets, radio observatory beyond the Moon starts its mission, and could we live on Mars?

Pick o' the podcasts:

Main engine cutoff: An interview with a company developing harpoon and nets for capturing spacecraft

365 days of astronomy podcast: Could we live on Mars?

Spacepod: Using art to explain the universe

Planetary Radio: Seeking killer space apps

From the video store:

How big do black  holes get?


 Follow the journey of a ripple in space-time. 

Ride with the Curiosity rover as it explores teal ridge on Mars. 

How Rocket Labs is planning to make it's Electron rocket re-useable:

Watch as Boeing's Starliner space capsule is attached to its booster:

Reading material:

Radio telescope above the Moon's far side begins hunting for signals from the Big Bang

Long live Jupiter's Great Red Spot, empress of storms!

Martian dust storms create towers of dust 80km high

NASA to buy seat on commercial space mission

Interstellar comet 21/Borisov grows a vast tail

Oxygen and water showcase Mars, Europa mysteries and struggles

Apologies...

Sorry for the interruption to service, I've been caught unawares by a health problem, but intend to be up and about again by the end of the week.

Physics in the movies, the first Chinese Mars mission, the Sun's forest explained and a lot more....

Pick o' the podcasts:

Spacepod: Modelling millions of asteroids and their impacts

We Martians: The first Chinese Mars mission

Physics world podcast: Physics in the movies

Off Nominal at IAC

Planetary Radio: A conversation with the head of the Cassini imaging team 

From the video store

Growth of the Sun's 'forest-like' plasma spicules explained

Star link mega constellation over LA

Reading material

NASA begins risky spacewalk to fix key space station experiment

Chinese lake Tai' from space

 Hayabusa come home!

Run away star hits almost starship speeds after encounter with black hole

New Horizons second target gets its official name : Arrakoth

Terra satellite sees Australian bush fires

Solar systems first solids grow within days

Why searching for alien life is tricky, giant simulated galaxies, cookies in space and a lot more...

Pick o' the podcasts

Time to eat the dogs: 'Higher and Colder' review

Get ready for the transit of Mercury

Astronomycast: The problem with biosignatures

Planetary Radio: Venus

From the video store:

Watch a giant galaxy form in a ground breaking hi-res simulation

Cookie oven sent to space

Boing's tests the escape systems on its new space capsule

Reading material:

Satellite Fleet to track iron ore

California wildfire damage seen from space

Artificial shooting stars and a step towards re-usability for Rocket lab

Space travel affects heart cells

Rotating space hotel by 2025?

SpaceX: Getting below $2 million per launch

Why Mars is so cold, despite all its CO2?

How ESA's Mercury mission was proofed against the heat

A trailer for The Mandalorian, plans to mine the Moon, a new dwarf planet discovered, and more...

Pick o' the podcasts

Planetary Radio: Space policy edition

ESO cast: Debris from a neutron star collision found

Main Engine Cut Off: Artemis politics at IAC and an interview with the CEO of Rocketlabs

We Martians: At the IAC confrerence

From the video store

Possible new dwarf planet found

Trailer for live action Star Wars TV series 'The Madalorian'

Reading material:

Catapillar construction wants to mine the Moon

What will SpaceX's new rocket be for? 

Reaction engines prove a key piece of their revolutionary engine

Some stunning and seldom seen images of the Moon

X37b space plane returns home after over two years in space

Atmospheric waves spotted from space