14 episodes — tap the yellow play button to listen.
Episode 1
Step into a universe where every world keeps its own clock. In this introduction to Time Across the Solar System , discover the story behind the project — how tatssp.com turns astronomy into wonder, making planetary time personal, visual, and real. Learn why a day on Venus lasts longer than its year, how astronauts flo…
Episode 2
They’re not escaping gravity — they’re riding it. In our first full episode of Time Across the Solar System , we uncover the real reason astronauts appear to float. Discover how orbit works, why the International Space Station is constantly “falling forever,” and what weightlessness truly feels like. This episode conne…
Episode 3
What if the Sun rose in the west? On Mars's moon Phobos, it does — and it happens twice a day. In this episode, we journey to the strangest moons in our solar system, where the rules of time get bent, broken, and turned completely sideways. You'll discover: - Phobos — the moon that rises backwards and orbits fa…
Episode 4
Discover how a simple question from an eleven-year-old sparked a global educational movement. Learn about Time Across the Solar System , the interactive platform answering the question millions are searching for: how old am I on Mars? Features real data from two hundred countries, interactive age calculators for every …
Episode 5
Would you age slower on Mars, or faster on Jupiter? Tess breaks down how gravity, radiation, and atmosphere on every world would rewrite the human lifespan, planet by planet. Full description: Imagine a hundred-year lifespan on Mars, or one measured in months on Jupiter. In this episode, Tess explores the real biology …
Episode 6
Space news the whole family can understand! This week Tess rounds up 10 big space stories and asks one fun question about all of them: how does time actually work up there? 🚀 We follow 4 astronauts getting ready to fly to the International Space Station, find out why rockets are booked all the way to 2029, visit a fut…
Episode 7
The James Webb Space Telescope is rewriting the story of the universe — from its earliest galaxies to the eventual fate of stars like our Sun. This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores six remarkable discoveries across cosmic time: JWST finds unexpectedly large populations of hidden, faint stars in anci…
Episode 8
This week on Time Across the Solar System: a 93% partial lunar eclipse turned the Moon copper-red over the UK and Ireland, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prepares to launch this weekend, and the Artemis II astronauts receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for their historic Moon flyby. Plus: Turke…
Episode 9
This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories showing why timing matters everywhere in space. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins its journey toward L2, NASA selects Blue Origin for a future Mars communications network, and astronomers report a remarkable ten-sided atmospheric structure…
Episode 10
This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories about the records the universe leaves behind. Astronomers uncover a mysterious new class of hypersoft X-ray sources hidden in old Chandra data. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS offers clues about the star system where it was born. A new analysis questions…
Episode 11
Starship has a new launch date. Mars has turned purple. And Hubble has found a galaxy whose centre appears to be rotating in a completely different direction from the rest. This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories showing how space is becoming a place humanity must not only explore, but als…
Episode 12
A moon of Uranus may once have hidden an ocean more than one hundred miles deep. Astronomers have detected radio bursts coming directly from a planet sixty-three light-years away. And NASA is uncovering a much more complicated history of water on ancient Mars.This week on Time Across the Solar System, Tess explores ten…
Episode 13
Could a suitcase-sized spacecraft listen to the universe before the first stars existed? This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories about one of astronomy’s most extraordinary rules: the farther into space we look, the further back in time we see . We meet CosmoCube , a small spacecraft desig…
Episode 14
Crew-13 has arrived at the International Space Station, Crew-12 is back on Earth, and astronomers have traced a fast radio burst whose signal travelled for more than ten billion years before reaching us. This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories showing that nothing in space runs on just one…
Each episode turns NASA-backed science into cinematic storytelling — days, years, and seasons on worlds from Mercury to Neptune. Hosted by Luigi Pascal Rondanini.