Universe Today

North America is preparing itself for the August Eclipse, so we thought it would be a good time to explain how eclipses work and what’s going on as the Moon briefly destroys the Sun.

NASA is working on the most powerful rocket ever built: the Space Launch System. What could it be used for to explore the Solar System?

In this week’s questions show, Fraser explains how the Apollo astronauts got past the Van Allen Belt, bulking up brown dwarfs, and how to deal with conspiracy theories.

In this week’s QA, Fraser talks using an asteroid for a space ship, colonizing the whole galaxy, and whether you’ve got dark matter all around you.

It’s been half a century since humans first set foot on the Moon? Why haven’t we gone back? Will we ever go anywhere interesting in space?

In this week’s QA, Fraser talks about black holes consuming dark matter, if traveling faster than light moves you backwards in time, and what those big pools under rockets are for.

We’ve only seen Uranus and Neptune one time up close. There are now some mission ideas in the works that might take us back.

We know trips in space will take a long time. Can we go to sleep for the journey and then wake up when we arrive?anus and Neptune one time up close. There are now some mission ideas in the works that might take us back.

In this week’s QA, Fraser talks about how spacecraft deal with orbital debris, the ethics of dismantling planets, the age of life in the Universe. With special guest answerer, Dr. Paul Matt Sutter.

We’ve now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the detections made so far, and how we can see the Universe in a whole new way.