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Space & Astronomy: Daily News

Space and astronomy news delivered daily — your essential briefing on rockets, missions, discoveries, and the future of human spaceflight. Space & Astronomy: Daily News cuts through the noise to bring you fast, clear, and compelling coverage of everything happening beyond Earth's atmosphere. From SpaceX Starship launches and NASA deep-space missions to Chinese space program milestones, ISS developments, and breakthrough astronomical discoveries, no story is too big or too niche for this show. Each episode distills the most important space news of the day into a focused, digestible format — perfect for commuters, students, space industry professionals, and anyone who looks up at the night sky and wonders what's out there. Whether you're tracking the latest crewed missions, following the commercial space race, or keeping up with cutting-edge telescope findings, this podcast keeps you informed and engaged. Hosted with clarity and enthusiasm, Space & Astronomy: Daily News is designed for both hardcore space enthusiasts and curious newcomers who want to stay connected to humanity's greatest adventure. Subscribe now and never miss a launch, a landing, or a landmark discovery again.

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26 May 2026 · 4 min

Starship V3 Success, Shenzhou 23 & ISS Leak Crisis | May 22-24

Starship V3 nails its first fully successful flight as the world's most powerful rocket, while China launches a year-long Moon-race mission and the ISS springs a dangerous new pressure leak. Six major stories in under 15 minutes.
25 May 2026 · 4 min

Artemis II Reaches Lunar Orbit & Frame-Dragging Confirmed | May 24

Artemis II carries its crew to lunar orbit for the first time since Apollo 17, while astronomers directly confirm Einstein's frame-dragging prediction using a torn-apart star. Black hole physics and human spaceflight both hit major milestones today.
24 May 2026 · 5 min

TOI-199b's Methane Shock, Starship V3 & Psyche's Mars Flyby

JWST detects methane on a temperate Saturn-sized exoplanet, rewriting planetary formation models — while Starship V3 completes its maiden flight with a booster anomaly. Plus SpaceX's trillion-dollar IPO filing, Psyche's Mars gravity assist, and the Artemis III lander timeline.
23 May 2026 · 5 min

JWST Weather Maps, TOI-199b & Starship V3's Uneven Debut

JWST has decoded daily weather cycles on a planet 690 light-years away, while Starship V3's maiden flight succeeded — with engine failures that raise serious questions. Five stories shaping space science this week.
22 May 2026 · 3 min

Scrub, Fix, Relaunch: Starship V3's Do-or-Die May 22 Attempt

A hydraulic pin failure scrubbed Starship V3's debut, but SpaceX is back on the pad for a May 22 relaunch with billions in IPO money, NASA's Moon mission, and Mars ambitions all riding on one test flight. Find out what to watch, what can still go wrong, and why this launch matters far beyond the spectacle.
22 May 2026 · 4 min

Starship V3 Launch Day: Hydraulic Fix, IPO Billions & Moon Stakes | May 22

SpaceX's Starship V3 faces its rescheduled launch window after a hydraulic pin failure scrubbed Flight 12 — with a $15B development bet, NASA's 2028 Moon timeline, and a looming IPO all riding on tonight's countdown. Six stories in six minutes.
20 May 2026 · 4 min

Starship V3 Thursday Launch: IPO Billions, Moon Stakes & Heat Shield Test | May 21

Starship V3 makes its long-awaited return Thursday with a redesigned vehicle, a deliberate heat shield damage experiment, and a two-trillion-dollar IPO riding on the outcome. Plus: Blue Moon thermal testing, Webb's atmosphere-free super-Earth, and ESA's Smile satellite launch.
19 May 2026 · 4 min

Starship V3 Maiden Flight: 33 Engines, Moon Stakes & Heat Shield Cameras | May 20

SpaceX attempts the maiden flight of Starship Version Three tonight — the largest, most redesigned rocket ever built, with Moon landing ambitions and seven months of delays behind it. From simultaneous 33-engine ignition to live heat shield imaging, here's everything at stake.
18 May 2026 · 4 min

Ice Clouds, a Non-Spinning Galaxy & Starship 12 | May 20

Webb finds water-ice clouds on a super-Jupiter, a 13.7-billion-year cosmic web map reshapes formation models, and Starship's 12th flight test lifts off Wednesday. Three major space stories that challenge what we thought we knew.
17 May 2026 · 4 min

COSMOS-Web's 164,000-Galaxy Map: The Cosmic Web in Full Detail

The COSMOS-Web survey has produced the clearest map ever made of the cosmic web, cataloguing 164,000 galaxies across 13.7 billion years of cosmic time using JWST. The full dataset is now public, and the science it unlocks is just beginning.
16 May 2026 · 4 min

Roman's Neutron Star Hunt: Millions Hidden in the Milky Way

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is set to detect millions of hidden neutron stars using gravitational microlensing — a capability nobody planned for. This episode breaks down the technique, the mass-gap mystery, and why Roman's precision changes everything.
15 May 2026 · 4 min

COSMOS-Web Maps the Cosmic Web Back to 1 Billion Years Old

JWST's COSMOS-Web survey has produced the first clear map of the universe's large-scale structure stretching back to when the cosmos was just one billion years old — charting 164,000 galaxies across dark matter filaments. It's not a refinement of what we had; it's a fundamentally different category of clarity.
14 May 2026 · 4 min

CRS-34's Double Scrub: T-Minus 30 Seconds & the Science at Stake

SpaceX's CRS-34 cargo mission was scrubbed twice in two days — the second abort triggered at T-minus thirty seconds by a cumulus cloud violation. From bone-loss scaffolds to bacterial biofilms, the experiments waiting on that Falcon 9 are as compelling as the launch drama itself.
13 May 2026 · 4 min

SpaceX CRS-34 Delayed: Mars Medicine & the Microgravity Fidelity Test

SpaceX's CRS-34 cargo mission to the ISS slips 24 hours, but what's aboard Dragon C-209 matters far more than the delay — bone loss research, anemia studies, and a critical test of whether Earth-based microgravity simulators can be trusted. Six experiments that are directly upstream of the medical protocols needed for a crewed Mars mission.
11 May 2026 · 4 min

Non-Rotating Ancient Galaxy & the Moon Lander Race | Ep. 1

Webb has found a galaxy from the early universe showing zero rotation — a discovery that breaks every formation model we have. Plus: NASA reshuffles Artemis, SpaceX races to prove orbital refueling, and Blue Origin tests its Moon lander hardware.
10 May 2026 · 3 min

Methyl Radical Beyond the Milky Way & JWST's Organic Chemistry Breakthrough

For the first time, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a methyl radical outside our galaxy — rewriting what we know about where life's building blocks can form. Today's episode unpacks the discovery, the cosmic ray mechanism driving it, and what remains unresolved.
9 May 2026 · 4 min

268 Landings, Starship V3 & Rocket Lab's Record Quarter

SpaceX records its 268th consecutive Falcon 9 booster landing as Starship V3 targets a mid-May Flight 12, while Rocket Lab's contract surge signals a reshaping commercial launch market. From Voyager 1's power cuts to Orbex's collapse, this episode covers every major development in space this week.
8 May 2026 · 8 min

ESA Space Rider Passes Reentry Tests & Florida's Record Launch Pace

ESA's Space Rider reusable spacecraft clears critical thermal protection and guided landing tests, marking a major step toward Europe's first reusable orbital platform. Plus: Florida's 2026 launch cadence is on track to shatter records, NASA updates the ISS flight plan, and a hypersonic testing gap gets a private-sector fix.