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Yesterday · 13 min
The First “Self-Driving” Telescope Goes Stargazing (SkAI )
Astronomy Daily S05E156 — Weekend Space & Astronomy News Wrap. Saturday, 1 August 2026. In this episode • The first “self-driving” telescope — a SkAI deep-learning system (Northwestern / UChicago / Fermilab) schedules and re-plans observations...
Friday · 16 min
Three of a Kind
S05E155 · Friday 31 July 2026 · Astronomy Daily with Anna & Avery. Four stories and a both-hemispheres skywatch. Australian English. ① Asteroid (44) Nysa — the first three-lobed world, and its hidden moon ● trilobate body — three lobes...
Thursday · 18 min
The Reach of a Giant
Astronomy Daily S05E154 — “The Reach of a Giant.” Thursday, 30 July 2026. Hosted by Anna and Avery. In this episode • A supermassive black hole caught heating and stirring an entire galaxy cluster — turbulence reaching ~300,000 light-years, about...
Wednesday · 21 min
Betelgeuse Is Not Alone!
Astronomy Daily · S05E153 · Wednesday 29 July 2026. Four stories from the frontier of space and astronomy, plus a both-hemispheres look at the sky — and news of our brand-new website. In this episode • Betelgeuse is not alone. ESO’s VLT/SPHERE has...
Tuesday · 18 min
Reading Io’s Hidden Heat: Juno’s First Subsurface Reading | Today’s Space News
Astronomy Daily S05E152 — “Reading the Heat” · Tuesday 28 July 2026. Hosts Anna & Avery. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has taken the first-ever temperature reading beneath the surface of Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon — and the technique behind it could...
Monday · 19 min
Pluto's Big Night & a Sharper Look at M87's Black Hole | Today's Space News
Astronomy Daily · S05E151 · “The Faint Little World Has Its Day” · Monday 27 July 2026 · Hosts Anna & Avery. Pluto has its brightest night of the year — so we go deep on the world nobody can agree how to label. Then a crew comes home after 241...
July 25 · 17 min
Lucky 13 | The Weekend Wrap
Astronomy Daily · S05E150 · “Lucky Thirteen” · Saturday 25 July 2026. Your Weekend Wrap: Starship Flight 13 finally flies and floats, the strongest exomoon candidate yet, a robotic satellite-servicer on its way to GEO, and what the Moon’s far side...
July 24 · 21 min
The Moon That Isn't | Today's Space News
Astronomers have confirmed the first moon-like object beyond our solar system — and immediately discovered our vocabulary cannot handle it. A Jupiter-mass world orbits a brown dwarf, which orbits a red dwarf, seventy light-years away. Is it a moon? A...
July 23 · 24 min
Far Side | Today's Space News
Astronomy Daily S05E148 — "Far Side" Thursday 23 July 2026 Starship gets a second shot at Flight 13 — with a schedule caveat worth knowing about. The first far-side lunar samples reveal that Earth has been quietly shielding the side of the Moon that...
July 22 · 32 min
Space Mechanic | Today's Space News
Astronomy Daily — S05E147: "Space Mechanic" Wednesday 22 July 2026 A spacecraft with robotic arms is on its way to geostationary orbit to keep other satellites alive. A discarded rocket stage is two weeks out from hitting the Moon, and twenty-three...
July 21 · 16 min
Postcards From Mars
Astronomy Daily · S05E146 · “Postcards from Mars” · Tuesday 21 July 2026 NASA’s Psyche probe phones home from its Mars flyby — data and a spellbinding month-long time-lapse — as Europe’s Plato planet-hunter clears its final test. From the Royal...
July 20 · 15 min
India Reaches Orbit — Privately — Today's Space News
Astronomy Daily S05E145 — “Arrival” — Monday, 20 July 2026. On the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11, we cover a first-of-its-kind launch, a Mars flyby science haul, a four-billion-year-old Martian record, a habitable-zone world with a likely atmosphere,...
July 18 · 14 min
The Sun's Hidden Power, Atmosphere on a Nearby Planet, and Starship's Five-Act Drama
Astronomy Daily — The Weekend Space and Astronomy News Wrap | Saturday 18 July 2026 | S05E144 Anna and Avery wrap the biggest week in space news this year: brand-new research warning that extreme solar storms may hit harder than our models assume, and...
July 17 · 16 min
Atmosphere Found on Rocky Exoplanet, Starship Drama Unfolds, and Meteorite Treasure Trove
Astronomy Daily — S05E143 | Friday 17 July 2026 | "A World With Air" Anna and Avery bring you a genuine milestone: the first atmosphere ever detected on a rocky planet in the habitable zone of another star. Plus Starship's last-second launch abort,...
July 16 · 19 min
Hide and Seek - The Faintest Planet Ever Imaged, Pluto's Landslides & Starlink's 355,000 Dodges
Anna and Avery kick off with a decade-long game of cosmic hide-and-seek that has finally ended: Beta Pictoris d, the faintest exoplanet ever directly imaged from Earth, found lurking in more than ten years of archival images — and orbiting a star in...
July 15 · 15 min
Starship Set for Launch, First Black Hole Found in Omega Centauri, and X-Rays in Space
Astronomy Daily — S05E141 | Wednesday 15 July 2026 Anna and Avery bring you the biggest space and astronomy news of the day: Starship Flight 13 is cleared for Thursday after the FAA closes its Flight 12 investigation and SpaceX reveals exactly what...
July 14 · 21 min
Space Mirrors Spark Controversy, Hidden Space Junk Revealed, and Black Hole Energy Breakthrough
Astronomy Daily — S05E140 | Tuesday 14 July 2026 | Hosts: Anna & Avery Space mirrors are officially cleared for launch — and astronomers are sounding the alarm. In today's episode, Anna and Avery unpack the FCC's approval of Reflect Orbital's...
July 13 · 19 min
Starship Set for Flight 13, Japan's Reusable Rocket Breakthrough, and SpaceX's 100,000 Satellite Ambition
Astronomy Daily S05E139 — Monday, 13 July 2026 Starship could fly again as soon as Wednesday — carrying its first-ever real payload. Japan quietly joins the reusable rocket club just a day after China. SpaceX asks regulators for a jaw-dropping...
July 11 · 14 min
China's Groundbreaking Rocket Catch, Cosmic Quasars, and Remembering Wally Funk | A Weekend Wrap
Astronomy Daily S05E138 — Weekend Space and Astronomy News Wrap — Saturday, 11 July 2026 China nets a rocket booster from the sea for the first time ever, we remember space pioneer Wally Funk, and we recap the week's four biggest stories: Euclid's...
July 10 · 11 min
Euclid Finds 31 Ancient Quasars — Plus a "Snowman" Asteroid and Roman Telescope Update
S05E137: Euclid uncovers 31 ancient quasars including the two most distant ever observed, Roman Space Telescope reaches a major pre-launch milestone at Kennedy Space Center, China details its plans for a sunward asteroid early-warning network,...

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The First “Self-Driving” Telescope Goes Stargazing (SkAI )

Three of a Kind

The Reach of a Giant

Betelgeuse Is Not Alone!

Reading Io’s Hidden Heat: Juno’s First Subsurface Reading | Today’s Space News

Pluto's Big Night & a Sharper Look at M87's Black Hole | Today's Space News

Lucky 13 | The Weekend Wrap

The Moon That Isn't | Today's Space News

Far Side | Today's Space News

Space Mechanic | Today's Space News

Postcards From Mars

India Reaches Orbit — Privately — Today's Space News

The Sun's Hidden Power, Atmosphere on a Nearby Planet, and Starship's Five-Act Drama

Atmosphere Found on Rocky Exoplanet, Starship Drama Unfolds, and Meteorite Treasure Trove

Hide and Seek - The Faintest Planet Ever Imaged, Pluto's Landslides & Starlink's 355,000 Dodges

Starship Set for Launch, First Black Hole Found in Omega Centauri, and X-Rays in Space

Space Mirrors Spark Controversy, Hidden Space Junk Revealed, and Black Hole Energy Breakthrough

Starship Set for Flight 13, Japan's Reusable Rocket Breakthrough, and SpaceX's 100,000 Satellite Ambition

China's Groundbreaking Rocket Catch, Cosmic Quasars, and Remembering Wally Funk | A Weekend Wrap

Euclid Finds 31 Ancient Quasars — Plus a "Snowman" Asteroid and Roman Telescope Update