Audio Podcasts

0:00 | Jul 22nd, 2010

During the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dangerous place to live. The planets wobbled and jostled around left over asteroids, com...Show More

0:00 | Jun 1st, 2010

Something appears to be pushing around a large clump of material that is in orbit of this star, and it's moving fast enough to make a difference in observations along a five month period.

0:00 | Feb 5th, 2010

From recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large nebula's scattered all around our galaxy, act as incubators for newborn stars to i...Show More

0:00 | Sep 4th, 2009

At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dusts and gases, before now our astronomers could only guess at what might lie behind ...Show More

0:00 | Apr 7th, 2009

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it! Well, at least the building blocks of life. A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets around stars cooler than our sun might possess a ...Show More

0:00 | Jan 28th, 2009

Talk about hot flashes! A planet that heats up to extreme temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling back down.

0:00 | Dec 12th, 2008

The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin brown dwarfs, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun.

0:00 | Nov 13th, 2008

The star Epsilon Eridani is even stranger than fiction. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has shown it has two asteroid belts.

0:00 | Sep 18th, 2008

Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The discovery provides a better understanding of how water -- an ...Show More

0:00 | Aug 25th, 2008

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to surprise astronomers. On its fifth anniversary, we recap some of this Great Observatory's biggest discoveries.