Join with me today as we travel through the solar system and see where the most likely places to find life could be.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we see what we should do when approaching the search for alien life. Because depending on the answer to this question, we have some vitally significant choices ahead of us as a species. And seeing as this is a question that scientists and political leaders are not yet considering seriously, let’s have a go at it on this platform.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we learn about the secrets of gargantuan gravitational waves, and the ingenious new method astronomers have used to detect them.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we grapple with the mystery that lies behind this signal, which will challenge our understanding of some of the most awe -inspiring objects in our cosmos.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we discover how Insight did what it did, as well as exactly what it learned. In this supercut, we will explore the mission of Insight, as it happened.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore the curious explanations behind this cosmic mystery.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore the strange relationship between mass and space curvature, and how when it comes to black holes, something very strange is going on with reality.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore the technology of the Voyager probes and learn how a series of shrewd engineering choices paved the way for the most ambitious and stunningly successful mission in the history of space exploration.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we dive into the fascinating climate cycle that became the stuff of legend centuries before we had the science to explain it.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore the nail biting journey of Lucy as it flies through the first phase of the most difficult complicated tour of our solar system to date.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we uncover what we know of dark energy, and explore some of the ways scientists are trying to understand it.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore Voyager 1 & 2 – the probes that have travelled farther than any other mission. What have they learned, when they pushed the boundaries of space exploration like never before? And why are scientists so surprised?

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we learn about the innocently named Lunar Nodal Cycle and why we need to start developing a much better understanding of the fluctuating behaviour of our Moon if we are to protect ourselves against its dangers.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

In today's episode, Winter is coming. But not all winters are created equal. Join with me as we learn about Milankovitch cycles; the millennia-long changes in the Earth’s motions that slowly but surely bounce our climate between pleasant warmth and freezing ice-ages... with the next one on the way.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

In today’s episode, we'll explore some of the new dangers astronauts will encounter on the moon, as well as some of the interesting solutions for how these challenges might be overcome.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

In today’s episode, we discuss escaping the unescapable. Everyone knows that nothing can escape a black hole… but is that actually true? It's time to find out.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

Are wheeled rovers on Mars a thing of the past? In today's episode we explore upcoming technology that might not see robots driving around on the red planet anymore... but walking instead.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

In today's episode we are faced with a paradox; as when it comes to the ESA CHEOPS telescope, taking a blurry image of a star might be more revealing than taking one that's clear. How? Listen on to find out.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

In today's episode, we ask: could humans one day live on Mars? Certainly, there are people who want to go there. Together we'll explore what it would take to set up on the Red planet; as well as the hurdles that would need to be overcome if we wanted to survive the experience.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

In today's episode, we observe the seemingly out-of-nowhere rush for billionaires to get into space aboard their own rockets. Is this just an example of wealthy extravagance, or can space tourism actually be a benefit to humanity?

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.

I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

In today's episode, we take a look at the Deep Impact mission - the first time scientists attempted to learn more about a comet by deliberately crashing into it.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

In today's episode, we examine the incredible hunt for Planet 9. Scientists are making new discoveries all the time, but could we be on the brink of discovering a new planet in our very own Solar System?

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we dive into Sun cycles. In particular, I intend to tell you exactly how the cycles of the Sun are already influencing the course of your life.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we learn more about this climate-shattering phenomenon, and what happens whenever the Polar Night Jet breaks down and the polar vortex is unleashed.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we will explore the rise of our technologically advanced society, and learn what materials you need to build what we now have. And then we will discover how much of those vital ingredients are left.

What did it do over the course of its nearly 26-day journey? The answer to that gains us a fascinating insight into how close we are to having a human on the moon once more.
Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we look at the recent successful splashdown of the first crew-able spacecraft to travel to the Moon and back in nearly 50 years. This mission will open the doorway to distant planets. 

What did it do over the course of its nearly 26-day journey? The answer to that gains us a fascinating insight into how close we are to having a human on the moon once more.
Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we listen to several different sounds made by the Sun, recreated through clever science. Because it turns out that these sounds may allow scientists to solve two of the Sun’s greatest mysteries.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore one of the strangest, most terrifying objects in our entire universe, Black Holes. What are black holes? What do we know about them? And what do they teach us about our existence? You're about to find out.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join with me today as we explore the science behind geomagnetic reversals, and find out whether the next one will be an apocalyptic scenario, or whether it’ll lead to nothing more than a few lost birds. What truly happens when things go South?

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you're listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Everything you ever wanted to know about earth, all in one place.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Join me today as we learn The Truth About Interstellar. Exploring the scientific phenomena of this film that underpin wormholes and black holes, explore the “real estate” of the Gargantua-Pantagruel system, and discover the realities of what happens when you bend spacetime to its extreme.

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.

Everything you could want to know about Neptune. A refresh of the Astrum ‘Our Solar System’ series, updated to reflect all we’ve learned about our planetary neighbourhood in the last few years. 

Welcome to the Astrum Sleep Space podcast; the perfect place to come and wind down for the evening while you learn more about the grandeur of the universe.
 
I’m Alex McColgan, the founder of the Astrum brand, and your host on this podcast. Come and listen as I tell you about incredible missions, fascinating discoveries, and everything I’ve come to love about space.

If you like what you’re listening to, be sure to check out my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@astrumspace for more great space content.