# jaxa (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover jaxa. Page: Feed: --- ## [The SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/the-spacex-falcon-9-that-crashed-into-the-moon) _2026-08-19 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the moon on August 5 after spending over a year and a half drifting through the Earth-Moon system. Jared Head, museum facilitator at Columbia Memorial Space Center, producer at TMRO, and co-host of All Space Considered at Griffith Observatory, walks us through how a rocket launched in January 2025 ended up crashing into the lunar surface. Kate Howells,… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/bb5135f3-3591-40d1-8f63-b4ab00106fa1/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Total solar eclipse 2026: Astrophotography and birdsong](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/total-solar-eclipse-2026-astrophotography-and-birdsong) _2026-08-12 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ On August 12th, 2026, the Moon's shadow will sweep across Iceland, Greenland, and Spain, bringing the first total solar eclipse visible from Europe since 1999. And because this eclipse happens near sunset, it promises to be one of the most visually stunning in living memory. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, founder of Cosmic Background Photography, joins the show to talk about his extraordinary… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/d4089f39-a701-434a-bcbb-b4a400e3a81b/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Space Policy Edition: “Science: A New Golden Age” - Reimagining U.S. science policy](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/space-policy-edition-science-a-new-golden-age-reimagining-u-s-science-policy) _2026-08-07 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy recently released "Science: A New Golden Age", a sweeping report that calls for a fundamental reimagining of how the United States funds and conducts science. Explicitly modeled on Vannevar Bush's landmark 1945 report "Science, the Endless Frontier," it challenges the traditional linear model of innovation, advocates for empowering… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/bffb3d32-8cd7-40d0-8d84-b49e0180d097/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [LHS 1140b: The first atmosphere detected on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/lhs-1140b-the-first-atmosphere-detected-on-a-rocky-habitable-zone-exoplanet) _2026-08-05 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ For the first time, scientists have confirmed an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of another star. Sarah Al-Ahmed is joined by Collin Cherubim, NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Chicago, to discuss his team's detection of helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140b, and what it reveals about how rocky worlds build, transform, and lose their atmospheres over time. His… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/e4ae9895-b826-45f3-8113-b49d00eba416/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [TERP RAPTOR: A student-built mission to asteroid Apophis](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/terp-raptor-a-student-built-mission-to-asteroid-apophis) _2026-07-29 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ On Friday, April 13, 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass closer to Earth than our geostationary satellites. While NASA, ESA, and JAXA are all sending missions, a team of students at the University of Maryland is building their own spacecraft to join the fleet. TERP RAPTOR is a CubeSat-based mission roughly the size of a microwave that aims to fly past the asteroid and snap images of its surface as it… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/a487b4a0-7dc4-473b-be17-b49600e5ee1c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Hot Jupiters: The ‘Roasted Planet’ and the wrong-way hotspot](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/hot-jupiters-the-roasted-planet-and-the-wrong-way-hotspot) _2026-07-22 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ Two hot Jupiters presented at the 248th American Astronomical Society meeting push our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres to the extreme. Research Scientist Tiffany Kataria from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shares new JWST observations of HD80606 b, the "Roasted Planet,"a gas giant on one of the most eccentric orbits ever discovered. Assistant Professor Lisa Dang of the University of… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/804e2c3f-7be8-4f41-86a2-b48f00e949ab/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Book Club Edition: “The Edge of Space-Time” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/book-club-edition-the-edge-of-space-time-by-chanda-prescod-weinstein) _2026-07-17 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ It may be the best book subtitle we've encountered in the Planetary Society book club: "Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie." Theoretical physicist and black feminist science theorist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has followed her acclaimed first book, "The Disordered Cosmos," with this new, equally celebrated, deeply personal romp across the Universe, "The Edge of Space-Time". Swinging from… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/9eccf76b-e170-4a6b-96ac-b486017d2b03/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Sian Proctor and John Read on teaching babies to love the Cosmos](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/sian-proctor-and-john-read-on-teaching-babies-to-love-the-cosmos) _2026-07-15 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ "Baby's Guide to the Night Sky" introduces the youngest kids - down to newborns - to constellations and the wonders of the Cosmos. It comes from two people who've spent their lives chasing that same wonder in very different ways. This week, we are joined by authors Sian Proctor and John Read. Sian Proctor is a geoscientist, artist, poet, and commercial space astronaut who served as pilot of… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/01d4cb29-8072-47f2-8978-b487013288e9/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Small Town Universe: Inside Green Bank's Radio Quiet Zone](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/small-town-universe-inside-green-banks-radio-quiet-zone) _2026-07-08 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ Green Bank, West Virginia is home to the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope. It's also the only town in the U.S. where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned, so the telescope can listen for faint signals from across the Universe undisturbed. This week, we bring you a special conversation recorded after The Planetary Society's virtual screening of Small Town Universe , the documentary that… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/ecb9a291-2248-46d8-ba3d-b4810046969a/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499) ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WofQWXKX73YN) _2026-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [Space Policy Edition: What's going on with commercial space stations?](https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/space-policy-edition-whats-going-on-with-commercial-space-stations) _2026-07-03 · Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science_ NASA's plan for what comes after the International Space Station (ISS) has been anything but stable. Since 2019, the agency's commercial space station strategy has shifted from free-flying vendor-operated stations to a government-owned module attached to the ISS, and back again, all while the clock ticks toward the ISS's expected retirement around 2030. Clayton Swope, deputy director of the… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/d95da206-8ee8-4ba5-ba8d-ad1200b4e5a4/cf13d5f5-6040-458d-ab5a-ad200189747d/7ffc89c7-8ca9-4ddd-a0c2-b47c00dc0a7a/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b75c9f7f-4a63-438e-b506-ad2001897499)