Spacetime With Stuart Gary

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 130 *The most distant fast radio burst ever Astronomers have identified the most distant Fast Radio Burst ever detected. The ephemeral cosmic blast which has been catalogued as FRB 20220610A occurred some eight billion light years away. *The Moon is 40 million years older than previously thought A new study of lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo 17 astronauts shows that the Moon is some 40 million years older than previously thought. The findings reported in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggest the Moon accreted from ejecta debris some 4.46 billion years ago – 40 million years earlier than the 4.425 billion years previously thought. *Curiosity rover finds new evidence of ancient Mars rivers, a key signal for life New analysis of data from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover suggests that many of the craters on Mars today could once have hosted habitable rivers. The findings reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters are based on numerica