Another week in our Coronavirus lockdown life rolls around, and Dr Brad Tucker is here with details of the closest black hole to Earth being discovered by astronomers, Tom Cruise and SpaceX signing up to film a movie on the Space Station and China’s shakedown cruise of it’s new long March 5B rocket.
We’re live across social media this morning for this week’s uncut edition of Talkin’ Science.
The Hubble Space Telescope is staying in our news cycle for a third week, as it captures the breakup of comet Atlas.
SpaceX and Blue Origin have been awarded contracts by NASA to aid in their Artemis missions to the moon.
As Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s comet, we’re getting an amazing light show in the predawn skies – the Eta Aquarid meteor shower.
Dr Brad Tucker drops by with details of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, SpaceX and Blue Origin winning contracts for NASA’s Artemis missions to the moon and Hubble spotting comet Atlas’ breakup as the power of the sun got too much for the iceball.
An exoplanet discovered by Hubble in 2004 may actually have been a planetary collision…
The global space arms race just got a little hotter following Iran’s successful launch of its first military satellite.
Asteroid 1998 OR2 is about to fly past the planet in it’s closest shave in about a century.
As SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites, Iran launches its first military satellite, an asteroid close shave and the mystery of Hubble’s exoplanet…
A pub band hailing from North Carolina has just released a new album tackling some of the hot button issues in their favourite fandoms.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating thirty years in orbit tomorrow. The Earth’s first orbiting telescope has shaped our understand and view of the universe and Dr Brad Tucker has the details on this Talkin’ Science Story of the Week..
The Very Large Telescope has spotted a dancing star which has proven Einstein right again… Dr Brad Tucker has the details on this Talkin’ Science Story of the Week..
As the US continues to present a destablised front to the world, Russia maintains it’s decision to build up it’s space defenses with an anti-satellite weapons test last week.
It’s a special week for NASA, not only is Hubble fast approaching it’s thirtieth anniversary but they’ve set a date to launch astronauts from US soil for the first time in almost nine years. Plus, Dr Brad Tucker has details of a dancing star proving Einstein right (again) and a Russian anti-satellite weapon test.
As part of our ongoing mini series of podcasts reviewing Star Trek, Lee Sargent is back with Matt for another installment of Talkin’ Trek. On this show the pair dive into Picard’s first season…
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