Fascinating Frontiers
By Patrick
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Episodes: 62
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Daily space and astronomy news digest. Bringing the wonders of space exploration and astronomy discoveries to everyone.
AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
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Ep 73: A faint crescent Moon is sliding past Venus tonight, offering a rare chance to watch two worlds share the same patch of sky.
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May 18, 2026 |
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Ep 72: Looking back at 4 episodes from 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-17 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
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May 17, 2026 |
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Ep 71: A NASA probe is borrowing Mars’ gravity to reach a metal asteroid no spacecraft has ever visited.
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May 16, 2026 |
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Ep 70: A faint halo surrounds the eclipsed Sun in Orion spacecraft images, hinting at light behavior no one fully expected in the vacuum of space.
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May 14, 2026 |
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Ep 69: A supernova caught mid-explosion in a spiral galaxy offers a rare window into stellar death at 50 million light-years away.
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May 12, 2026 |
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Ep 68: Two space agencies just finalized plans to study an asteroid that will skim Earth in 2029, offering a rare close-up of a potentially hazardous object.
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May 11, 2026 |
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Ep 67: A commercial spacecraft has completed final tests for NASA’s first satellite-rescue mission in a crowded orbital environment.
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May 10, 2026 |
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Ep 66: ESA and JAXA have formalized a joint mission to study asteroid Apophis ahead of its close 2029 flyby.
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May 09, 2026 |
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Ep 65: NASA and SpaceX are preparing a new cargo launch to restock the International Space Station.
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May 08, 2026 |
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Ep 64: JWST has directly examined the surface of a distant exoplanet for the first time.
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May 06, 2026 |
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Ep 63: Firefly Aerospace plans to debut its upgraded Alpha Block 2 rocket late this summer amid rising demand.
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May 05, 2026 |
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Ep 62: Astronomers identify 27 candidate planets orbiting binary stars in distant solar systems.
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May 04, 2026 |
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Ep 61: NASA's lithium-fed nuclear thruster has been tested for the first time, advancing options for Mars missions.
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May 02, 2026 |
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Ep 60: A Falcon Heavy is rolling toward the pad for its first launch in 18 months while Europe prepares Ariane 6’s second flight with four boosters.
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Ep 59: NASA's Artemis III crewed lunar landing slips to no earlier than late 2027 as planners refine the timeline.
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Ep 58: NASA's Webb telescope has directly imaged water-ice clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby super-Jupiter exoplanet.
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Ep 57: NASA has released a fresh batch of images from Artemis II operations showing Earth, the Moon, and the Sun captured across multiple mission phases.
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Ep 56: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed final assembly and is on track for September launch.
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Ep 55: Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already discovered 11,000 new asteroids before its main survey even begins.
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Ep 54: NASA picks Falcon Heavy for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite its own proposed budget cut.
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Ep 53: NASA's SPHEREx has mapped vast "interstellar glaciers" of ice stretching more than 600 light-years across the Milky Way.
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Ep 52: Theoretical models now link core magnetism in red giants to fossil fields on white dwarfs, illuminating our Sun’s eventual fate.
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Ep 51: Artemis II crew prepares for high-stakes re-entry and Pacific splashdown after journey beyond the Moon.
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Ep 50: Artemis II has broken the Apollo-era human distance record from Earth while looping around the Moon’s far side.
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Ep 49: Artemis II astronauts have entered the Moon's sphere of influence, marking humanity's return to lunar space.
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Ep 48: Artemis 2 astronauts have successfully repaired their toilet during the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years.
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Ep 47: SpaceX is preparing to loft 119 small satellites in one rideshare launch from California this morning.
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Ep 46: [Slow News Edition] Mars-like exoplanets orbiting M-dwarfs could lose their atmospheres in just millions of years.
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Ep 45: [Slow News Edition] Hubble has caught a tiny comet slowing its spin and then reversing direction entirely.
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Ep 44: Giant craters on metallic asteroid Psyche could finally confirm if it's the exposed core of a destroyed protoplanet.
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Ep 43: Researchers are investigating how Mars gravity will change astronauts' skeletal muscle.
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Ep 42: ESA will charter its own dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the ISS to expand astronaut flight opportunities.
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Ep 40: Blue Origin has filed plans for a massive constellation of up to 51,600 satellites to host data centers in orbit.
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Ep 41: The vernal equinox arrives today at 10:46 A.M. EDT, marking astronomical spring as the Sun crosses directly over Earth’s equator.
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Ep 39: NASA confirms readiness for Artemis 2, targeting a crewed lunar orbit no earlier than April 1.
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Ep 38: Scientists traced the most energetic neutrino ever detected to blazars powered by supermassive black holes.
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Ep 37: NASA's DART mission successfully altered an asteroid's solar orbit, proving deflection potential for planetary defense.
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Ep 36: A new study proposes space weather scrambles alien radio signals, evading SETI detectors.
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Ep 35: China's new economic plan elevates space as a pillar industry with deep space goals.
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Ep 34: A total lunar eclipse tonight will turn the full moon blood red, visible to over 3 billion people.
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Ep 33: NASA has overhauled its Artemis program, canceling the Artemis 3 moon landing and adding a preparatory mission in 2027.
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Ep 32: NASA shakes up human spaceflight leadership after critical Starliner report.
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 31 - January 30, 2026 at 04:15 AM PST
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 30 - January 28, 2026 at 04:13 AM PST
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 29 - January 26, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 28 - January 25, 2026 at 03:32 PM PST
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 27 - January 23, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 26 - January 22, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 25 - January 11, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 24 - January 10, 2026 at 04:07 AM PST
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 23 - January 09, 2026 at 04:08 AM PST
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 22 - January 07, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 21 - January 06, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 20 - January 05, 2026 at 04:09 AM PST
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 19 - January 04, 2026 at 04:07 AM PST
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 18 - January 03, 2026 at 04:08 AM PST
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 17 - January 02, 2026 at 04:08 AM PST
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 16 - January 01, 2026 at 04:08 AM PST
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 15 - December 31, 2025 at 04:08 AM PST
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 14 - December 30, 2025 at 04:09 AM PST
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 13 - December 29, 2025 at 04:08 AM PST
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Fascinating Frontiers - Episode 12 - December 28, 2025 at 04:07 AM PST
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Dec 28, 2025 |