Solar Fireworks, Crew-12 Countdown, and Venus Hides a Secret
Space News TodayFebruary 10, 202600:13:3812.5 MB

Solar Fireworks, Crew-12 Countdown, and Venus Hides a Secret

In today's episode of Astronomy Daily, Anna and Avery cover five major stories from across the cosmos. SpaceX Crew-12 is targeting Thursday February 12th for launch to the International Space Station, after weather pushed back the Wednesday window. Meet the international crew of four and find out why this mission will run longer than usual. Our Sun has been active overnight, with sunspot region AR4366 firing off four M-class flares including an M2.8 that triggered a radio blackout over the Pacific. We look at what this means for space weather and aurora watchers. A stunning new study from Penn State, published in PNAS, has rewritten how scientists think amino acids formed in asteroid Bennu — and the implications for where life's ingredients can arise in the universe are profound. Italian scientists have confirmed the first lava tube on Venus, using 30-year-old radar data from NASA's Magellan mission. The structure is larger than any lava tube found on Earth, the Moon, or Mars. And finally — could coal be the key to finding advanced alien civilisations? A provocative new paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology makes the case. All stories sourced from NASA, Nature Communications, PNAS, and Phys.org. Links below. Source Links • Crew-12 weather delay: nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation • NSF launch preview: nasaspaceflight.com/2026/02/launch-preview-020926 • Bennu amino acids (PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2517723123 • Venus lava tube (Nature Communications): doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68643-6 • Aliens and coal: phys.org/news/2026-02-advanced-aliens-exoplanets-large-coal.html • Solar activity: earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates Chapters / Timestamps (approximate) • 00:00 — Cold Open • 01:00 — Story 1: SpaceX Crew-12 Weather Delay • 05:00 — Story 2: Solar Flare Activity AR4366 • 07:30 — Story 3: Asteroid Bennu & Amino Acid Origins • 10:30 — Story 4: Venus Lava Tube Discovery • 13:30 — Story 5: Alien Civilisations & Coal Deposits • 17:00 — Close


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00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 Four astronauts are sitting in

00:00:02 --> 00:00:04 quarantine right now at Kennedy Space

00:00:04 --> 00:00:07 Center in Florida. Bags packed, suits

00:00:07 --> 00:00:10 ready, waiting for the weather to

00:00:10 --> 00:00:14 cooperate. SpaceX Crew 12 is almost go

00:00:14 --> 00:00:17 and the countdown is very much on.

00:00:17 --> 00:00:20 >> Meanwhile, our sun is doing what it does

00:00:20 --> 00:00:23 best, putting on a show. Plus, a lava

00:00:23 --> 00:00:24 tunnel the size of a city has just been

00:00:24 --> 00:00:27 confirmed under the clouds of Venus. And

00:00:27 --> 00:00:29 a tiny teaspoon of asteroid dust has

00:00:29 --> 00:00:31 just rewritten the story of how life's

00:00:31 --> 00:00:34 ingredients form in space. Good morning,

00:00:34 --> 00:00:36 good evening, wherever you are in the

00:00:36 --> 00:00:38 world, and welcome to Astronomy Daily.

00:00:38 --> 00:00:39 >> I'm Anna.

00:00:39 --> 00:00:41 >> And I'm Avery. Let's get into it.

00:00:41 --> 00:00:43 >> Let's kick things off with our lead

00:00:43 --> 00:00:46 story because the ISS is short-handed

00:00:46 --> 00:00:49 right now and NASA wants to fix that as

00:00:49 --> 00:00:52 soon as possible. The SpaceX Crew 12

00:00:52 --> 00:00:55 mission has been pushed back once again.

00:00:55 --> 00:00:58 This time to no earlier than Thursday,

00:00:58 --> 00:01:01 February 12th at 5:38 in the morning

00:01:01 --> 00:01:04 Eastern time. The culprit, weather along

00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 the Crew Dragons flight path.

00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 >> Yeah, mission teams did a weather review

00:01:09 --> 00:01:11 and decided to wave off the Wednesday

00:01:11 --> 00:01:13 window entirely. Conditions are expected

00:01:13 --> 00:01:16 to improve Thursday, but Friday the 13th

00:01:16 --> 00:01:18 is also being kept as a backup. So,

00:01:18 --> 00:01:19 we're in a holding pattern, but a short

00:01:19 --> 00:01:20 one hopefully.

00:01:20 --> 00:01:23 >> And while we're waiting, let's talk

00:01:23 --> 00:01:25 about the crew because this is a really

00:01:26 --> 00:01:28 international team. Commanding the

00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 mission is NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway,

00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 his first spaceflight command. Pilot

00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 seat goes to the brilliant Jessica

00:01:36 --> 00:01:39 Meyer, who's no stranger to the ISS.

00:01:39 --> 00:01:41 Then you've got Sophie Adonaut

00:01:41 --> 00:01:44 representing the European Space Agency.

00:01:44 --> 00:01:46 This is her first space flight. and

00:01:46 --> 00:01:49 Rosscosmos cosminaut Andre Fedv

00:01:49 --> 00:01:51 completing the quartet.

00:01:51 --> 00:01:53 >> They'll be riding aboard Crew Dragon

00:01:53 --> 00:01:55 Freedom, which is itself a fascinating

00:01:55 --> 00:01:58 spacecraft. This will be Freedom's fifth

00:01:58 --> 00:02:00 flight, returning after a whopping

00:02:00 --> 00:02:03 501day turnaround since Crew 9. And

00:02:03 --> 00:02:05 here's something to watch for at launch.

00:02:06 --> 00:02:07 This mission will mark the very first

00:02:07 --> 00:02:10 use of landing zone 40, a brand new

00:02:10 --> 00:02:13 landing pad built right inside the SLC

00:02:13 --> 00:02:16 40 complex itself. So, the booster is

00:02:16 --> 00:02:17 going to launch and then come back and

00:02:17 --> 00:02:20 land right next door. That's wild.

00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 >> It is wild. Now, one thing that makes

00:02:23 --> 00:02:25 this particular rotation different from

00:02:25 --> 00:02:28 the usual 6 months is the expected

00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 duration. Because of crew 11's early

00:02:31 --> 00:02:34 medical evacuation back in January, crew

00:02:34 --> 00:02:37 12 is expected to stay for 8 to 9

00:02:37 --> 00:02:40 months, longer than a typical stay. The

00:02:40 --> 00:02:43 ISS needs the staffing, and this crew is

00:02:43 --> 00:02:46 ready. And it's a big week for launches

00:02:46 --> 00:02:48 beyond just Crew 12. The launch manifest

00:02:48 --> 00:02:50 is absolutely stacked right now. We have

00:02:50 --> 00:02:53 ULA's Vulcan rocket going up with

00:02:53 --> 00:02:54 USSF87,

00:02:54 --> 00:02:56 a pair of satellite surveillance for the

00:02:56 --> 00:02:58 US Space Force. Then there's the first

00:02:58 --> 00:03:01 Aron 64 launch, which will carry 32

00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 Amazon Kyper internet satellites. That's

00:03:04 --> 00:03:06 Starlink's main competitor, by the way.

00:03:06 --> 00:03:09 Plus a Russian Proton M and surprise

00:03:09 --> 00:03:12 surprise, multiple Starlink missions. It

00:03:12 --> 00:03:14 is genuinely one of the busiest launch

00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 weeks we've seen in a while.

00:03:16 --> 00:03:18 >> So, if you're a launch watcher, clear

00:03:18 --> 00:03:20 your Thursday calendar. Live streams

00:03:20 --> 00:03:23 will be available online for most, if

00:03:23 --> 00:03:25 not all, of these launches.

00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 >> Okay, story two. And we keep an eye on

00:03:27 --> 00:03:29 our star because right now, as we

00:03:29 --> 00:03:31 reported a few days ago, it is being

00:03:31 --> 00:03:36 very talkative. Sunspot region AR4366

00:03:36 --> 00:03:38 has been one of the most active regions

00:03:38 --> 00:03:41 of solar cycle 25 and overnight it fired

00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 off four M-class flares. The biggest was

00:03:44 --> 00:03:46 an M2.8, that's a moderate flare for

00:03:46 --> 00:03:50 context, at around 214 UTC this morning,

00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 which triggered a minor R1class radio

00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 blackout over the seas between Australia

00:03:55 --> 00:03:57 and Papa New Guinea. Just to give people

00:03:57 --> 00:04:00 a quick refresher on the scale here,

00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 solar flares are classified by their

00:04:02 --> 00:04:06 peak X-ray intensity. C-class are minor,

00:04:06 --> 00:04:09 MClass are moderate and can cause brief

00:04:09 --> 00:04:12 radio blackouts at high latitudes, and

00:04:12 --> 00:04:14 X-class are the big ones, the kind that

00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 can knock out power grids and satellite

00:04:17 --> 00:04:20 communications. So, four MClass flares

00:04:20 --> 00:04:22 in a day is definitely worth paying

00:04:22 --> 00:04:25 attention to. Ark 4366 has actually been

00:04:25 --> 00:04:28 the source of some spectacular X-class

00:04:28 --> 00:04:30 activity over the past couple of weeks,

00:04:30 --> 00:04:33 too. It's been a busy region. Now, it's

00:04:33 --> 00:04:34 rotating out of the Earth-facing part of

00:04:34 --> 00:04:37 the sun. So, today the forecast is quiet

00:04:37 --> 00:04:40 to unsettled as the corona whole stream

00:04:40 --> 00:04:42 influence gradually weakens, but

00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 forecasters will be watching it closely.

00:04:44 --> 00:04:47 If we get any significant CMEs thrown

00:04:47 --> 00:04:49 our way, that could mean aurora's

00:04:49 --> 00:04:50 pushing further from the poles than

00:04:50 --> 00:04:53 usual, which is always exciting news for

00:04:53 --> 00:04:54 sky watchers.

00:04:54 --> 00:04:56 >> We're still in an active phase of solar

00:04:56 --> 00:04:58 cycle 25, which is tracking hotter than

00:04:58 --> 00:05:00 predicted. So, don't put the Aurora

00:05:00 --> 00:05:02 alert apps away just yet. We'll keep

00:05:02 --> 00:05:03 monitoring.

00:05:03 --> 00:05:05 >> We certainly will. This is exciting

00:05:05 --> 00:05:06 stuff.

00:05:06 --> 00:05:09 >> Okay, moving on. Story three takes us to

00:05:09 --> 00:05:11 one of the most exciting ongoing areas

00:05:11 --> 00:05:13 of science, the Bennu samples from

00:05:13 --> 00:05:15 NASA's Osiris Rex mission. We've talked

00:05:15 --> 00:05:18 about Bennu a lot, and each new study

00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 seems to shift our thinking a little

00:05:20 --> 00:05:22 more. This week's paper published in the

00:05:22 --> 00:05:23 proceedings of the National Academy of

00:05:24 --> 00:05:27 Sciences might be the biggest shift yet.

00:05:27 --> 00:05:29 >> So, what's the finding? For decades,

00:05:29 --> 00:05:31 scientists thought amino acids in

00:05:31 --> 00:05:33 asteroids form through what's called

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00:05:38 --> 00:05:40 picture was something like a wet warm

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00:05:43 --> 00:05:45 along. But the Penn State team led by

00:05:45 --> 00:05:48 Allison Bazinski looked at the isotopic

00:05:48 --> 00:05:50 signatures of amino acids in the Benu

00:05:50 --> 00:05:52 samples, specifically glycine, which is

00:05:52 --> 00:05:55 the simplest amino acid, and found that

00:05:55 --> 00:05:57 the story is much more complicated. The

00:05:57 --> 00:05:59 data suggests these amino acids formed

00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 under harsh, cold, icy, radiationrich

00:06:02 --> 00:06:04 environments. The kind of environment

00:06:04 --> 00:06:06 we'd associate more with the outer solar

00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 system than a warm, watery asteroid.

00:06:09 --> 00:06:11 Bazinski described it as their results

00:06:11 --> 00:06:13 flipping the script on how amino acids

00:06:13 --> 00:06:16 form. It's not just one pathway anymore.

00:06:16 --> 00:06:18 It looks like there are many conditions

00:06:18 --> 00:06:20 under which life's building blocks can

00:06:20 --> 00:06:21 emerge.

00:06:21 --> 00:06:23 >> And why does that matter? Because if

00:06:23 --> 00:06:26 amino acids can form in extreme icy

00:06:26 --> 00:06:28 environments, not just warm, watery

00:06:28 --> 00:06:31 ones, the range of places in the cosmos

00:06:31 --> 00:06:33 where life's precursors might exist,

00:06:33 --> 00:06:35 just got dramatically wider. We're

00:06:35 --> 00:06:38 talking about icy moons, comet nuclei,

00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 the outer reaches of the solar system,

00:06:40 --> 00:06:41 places we might not have been

00:06:42 --> 00:06:43 prioritizing in the search for life's

00:06:43 --> 00:06:44 ingredients.

00:06:44 --> 00:06:46 >> What's remarkable is that all of this

00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 came from a sample smaller than a

00:06:48 --> 00:06:51 teaspoon. That speck of 4.6 6 billiony

00:06:51 --> 00:06:54 old asteroid dust is genuinely changing

00:06:54 --> 00:06:56 our understanding of how life may have

00:06:56 --> 00:06:58 gotten started. The Osiris Rex mission

00:06:58 --> 00:07:01 just keeps on giving. Story for today.

00:07:01 --> 00:07:04 And I genuinely love this one. We found

00:07:04 --> 00:07:06 lava tubes on the moon. We found them on

00:07:06 --> 00:07:09 Mars. And now for the first time,

00:07:09 --> 00:07:11 scientists have confirmed one on Venus.

00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 A team from the University of Trento in

00:07:14 --> 00:07:16 Italy has published a paper in Nature

00:07:16 --> 00:07:18 Communications this week revealing the

00:07:18 --> 00:07:20 existence of a massive underground lava

00:07:20 --> 00:07:22 tunnel on our closest planetary

00:07:22 --> 00:07:24 neighbor. And the really clever part of

00:07:24 --> 00:07:27 this story is how they found it. Venus

00:07:27 --> 00:07:29 is famously difficult to observe. It's

00:07:29 --> 00:07:31 permanently wrapped in thick sulfuric

00:07:31 --> 00:07:33 acid clouds that block direct

00:07:33 --> 00:07:35 photography of the surface. So the team

00:07:36 --> 00:07:37 went back to radar data collected by

00:07:37 --> 00:07:40 NASA's Mellan spacecraft between 1990

00:07:40 --> 00:07:44 and 1992. Data that's over 30 years old.

00:07:44 --> 00:07:46 They developed a new imaging technique

00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 specifically designed to detect

00:07:48 --> 00:07:50 underground conduits near surface

00:07:50 --> 00:07:52 collapse features called skylights. And

00:07:52 --> 00:07:54 when they applied it to the Nyx Mons

00:07:54 --> 00:07:55 region, named for the Greek goddess of

00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 the night, they found it.

00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 >> Now let's talk size for a moment because

00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 this thing is enormous. The lava tube is

00:08:03 --> 00:08:05 estimated to be around 1 kilometer wide.

00:08:06 --> 00:08:08 That's wider than any lava tube found on

00:08:08 --> 00:08:10 Earth, the moon, or Mars. The roof is at

00:08:10 --> 00:08:14 least 150 m thick. The empty void below

00:08:14 --> 00:08:17 is at least 375 m deep. And based on the

00:08:17 --> 00:08:19 surrounding terrain analysis, the whole

00:08:20 --> 00:08:23 conduit could extend for at least 45 km

00:08:23 --> 00:08:24 underground.

00:08:24 --> 00:08:28 >> 45 km. That's a subterranean highway.

00:08:28 --> 00:08:30 And there's an interesting reason it's

00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 so big. Venus has lower gravity than

00:08:33 --> 00:08:36 Earth and a denser atmosphere, which

00:08:36 --> 00:08:38 actually favors the rapid formation of a

00:08:38 --> 00:08:41 thick insulating crust on top of lava

00:08:41 --> 00:08:44 flows. So, the tubes can grow larger and

00:08:44 --> 00:08:47 last longer on Venus than elsewhere. The

00:08:47 --> 00:08:49 planet with the worst surface conditions

00:08:49 --> 00:08:51 in the solar system might have some

00:08:51 --> 00:08:53 remarkably stable real estate

00:08:53 --> 00:08:54 underground.

00:08:54 --> 00:08:56 >> This also has really important

00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 implications for future Venus missions.

00:08:59 --> 00:09:01 Envision spacecraft and NASA's

00:09:01 --> 00:09:03 Veraritoss are both being developed for

00:09:03 --> 00:09:06 Venus and both will carry advanced radar

00:09:06 --> 00:09:08 systems capable of doing this kind of

00:09:08 --> 00:09:10 subsurface analysis in far greater

00:09:10 --> 00:09:13 detail. The team describes this

00:09:13 --> 00:09:15 discovery as only the beginning of what

00:09:15 --> 00:09:17 could be a long and fascinating research

00:09:17 --> 00:09:20 program into Venus's hidden geology.

00:09:20 --> 00:09:23 >> And our final story today takes a

00:09:23 --> 00:09:25 delightfully unexpected angle on the

00:09:25 --> 00:09:27 search for extraterrestrial

00:09:27 --> 00:09:29 intelligence. A new paper in the

00:09:29 --> 00:09:32 International Journal of Astrobiology by

00:09:32 --> 00:09:35 plant biologist Lincoln Ties at UC Santa

00:09:35 --> 00:09:38 Cruz argues that if we want to find

00:09:38 --> 00:09:40 advanced alien civilizations, we should

00:09:40 --> 00:09:43 be looking for exoplanets with large

00:09:43 --> 00:09:45 accessible deposits of coal.

00:09:46 --> 00:09:49 >> Coal, not radio signals, not Dyson

00:09:49 --> 00:09:53 spheres, coal. I genuinely love this. So

00:09:53 --> 00:09:55 what's the argument? TICE traces the

00:09:55 --> 00:09:57 chain of development that led to us

00:09:57 --> 00:09:59 being able to communicate across

00:09:59 --> 00:10:02 interstellar distances. On Earth, none

00:10:02 --> 00:10:05 of our advanced technology, no steel, no

00:10:05 --> 00:10:07 deep fossil fuel extraction, no

00:10:07 --> 00:10:10 electricity, no radio telescopes would

00:10:10 --> 00:10:11 have been possible without first being

00:10:12 --> 00:10:15 able to forge steel. and steel required

00:10:15 --> 00:10:18 coal. Specifically, huge amounts of

00:10:18 --> 00:10:20 shallow energy dense coal like the

00:10:20 --> 00:10:22 deposits laid down during the

00:10:22 --> 00:10:25 Carboniferous and Peran periods roughly

00:10:25 --> 00:10:29 330 to 260 million years ago. The paper

00:10:29 --> 00:10:32 argues that the same logic should apply

00:10:32 --> 00:10:34 to any technological civilization

00:10:34 --> 00:10:37 anywhere in the universe. Intelligence

00:10:37 --> 00:10:40 isn't enough. Biology isn't enough. You

00:10:40 --> 00:10:43 need the geology to match a planet that

00:10:43 --> 00:10:44 happened to grow the right kinds of

00:10:44 --> 00:10:47 forests at the right time in its history

00:10:47 --> 00:10:49 under the right conditions to bury them

00:10:49 --> 00:10:52 and compress them into energy dense coal

00:10:52 --> 00:10:55 seams that a curious civilization could

00:10:55 --> 00:10:57 then dig up and use to bootstrap an

00:10:57 --> 00:10:59 industrial revolution.

00:10:59 --> 00:11:01 >> And the implications for SETI are

00:11:01 --> 00:11:03 fascinating. The paper suggests planets

00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 in the so-called photosynthetic

00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 habitable zone where both liquid water

00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 and oxygen producing photosynthesis are

00:11:10 --> 00:11:13 possible might be relatively rare. Even

00:11:13 --> 00:11:15 rarer are the planets where all the

00:11:15 --> 00:11:18 conditions align. The right star, the

00:11:18 --> 00:11:20 right orbit, the right biology, the

00:11:20 --> 00:11:23 right geology, and the right timing.

00:11:23 --> 00:11:26 Hole doesn't just appear. It requires a

00:11:26 --> 00:11:29 very specific sequence of events across

00:11:29 --> 00:11:31 hundreds of millions of years. There is

00:11:31 --> 00:11:34 also a potential detection angle. An

00:11:34 --> 00:11:36 alien industrial revolution would

00:11:36 --> 00:11:39 produce atmospheric signatures. Elevated

00:11:39 --> 00:11:42 carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen

00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 oxides. So these are theoretically

00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 detectable with sufficiently powerful

00:11:47 --> 00:11:50 telescopes. The catch, as the paper

00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 acknowledges, is that the coal burning

00:11:52 --> 00:11:54 phase of any civilization would be

00:11:54 --> 00:11:56 relatively brief. We certainly hope it

00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 is. So the detection window would be

00:11:58 --> 00:12:01 narrow, but it adds a whole new layer to

00:12:01 --> 00:12:03 what we're looking for when we study

00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 exoplanet atmospheres.

00:12:05 --> 00:12:07 >> It's also a slightly humbling thought.

00:12:07 --> 00:12:09 The reason we can have this

00:12:09 --> 00:12:11 conversation, the reason we built the

00:12:11 --> 00:12:13 telescopes and the rockets and the radio

00:12:13 --> 00:12:15 transmitters might ultimately come down

00:12:15 --> 00:12:18 to a lucky geological accident 300

00:12:18 --> 00:12:20 million years ago. We happen to live on

00:12:20 --> 00:12:22 a planet with a lot of coal in the right

00:12:22 --> 00:12:25 places at the right time. Not every

00:12:25 --> 00:12:27 world will be so fortunate.

00:12:27 --> 00:12:29 >> And that is your Astronomy Daily for

00:12:29 --> 00:12:33 Tuesday the 10th of February, 2026. From

00:12:33 --> 00:12:35 solar fireworks and a countdown to

00:12:35 --> 00:12:38 launch to lava tunnels on Venus,

00:12:38 --> 00:12:40 rewritten science from Bennu and a

00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 genuinely thoughtprovoking new take on

00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 the search for extraterrestrial life.

00:12:45 --> 00:12:47 It's been quite the episode.

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