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Exoplanet

Trappist-1’s Solar Wind Stripping Atmosphere

Scientists studying the Trappist-1 system have made a discovery that likely dashes the hopes of either colonisation or finding life on the exoplanets.

Wednesday, March 6 2024

A Newly Discovered Exoplanet Plus Get A Free Ride To The Moon

Win a free trip to the moon… you’ll just need to convince a Japanese billionaire you’re worth it. A newly discovered exo planet could help us understand life and we may finally understand the moon beam excited by solar photons which was first discovered in 90’s.

Tuesday, March 9 2021

Preparing to Land on Asteroid Bennu : Talkin’ Science

NASA preps Osiris-REx to land on an asteroid, super habitable exoplanets postulated and Dr Brad and his team discover the closest star to be gobbled up by a black hole. Those stories – plus the headlines – on this edition of Talkin’ Science.

Tuesday, October 13 2020

LIVE: Hungry Black Holes, Exomoons and Rocketlabs Failure to Launch

We’re back live for another edition of Talkin’ Science uncut. From hungry black holes to the loss of 7 satellites, we’ve got this week’s science and space news headlines.

Saturday, July 11 2020

6 More Exomoons Discovered

Astronomers studying data from the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered moons orbiting exoplanets. They’re even harder to find because of their size, but these candidates are about 200 to 3,000 light years away.

Thursday, July 9 2020

A Hungry Black Hole as Rocketlabs Fails To Launch

Astronomers are being kept busy by new research into black holes and exomoons as Rocketlabs – the US based company aiming to provide fast and reliable access to space – fails to launch again.

Tuesday, July 7 2020

Almost a Perfect Clone

Astronomers have stumbled on what could be mistaken for a clone of our own solar system. And while the discovery is yet to be confirmed, all signs are promising for this find.

Wednesday, June 17 2020

A Repeating Fast Radio Burst as We Find Almost a Carbon Copy of our Solar System

It’s another jam packed installment of Talkin’ Science this week. Dr Brad stops by with details of the fifth solar flyby for the Solar Parker Probe, an exoplanet system that’s pretty close to our system, a long duration fast radio burst pattern and a busy weekend for low Earth orbit.

Tuesday, June 16 2020

The Answer Is No as We’re Go For Launch

Astronomers capture the image of a newborn planet, we bust a couple of myths doing the rounds at the moment and Brad and Matt discuss the upcoming SpaceX launch…

Tuesday, May 26 2020

An Exoplanet Collision

An exoplanet discovered by Hubble in 2004 may actually have been a planetary collision…

Friday, May 1 2020

The Mystery of a Vanishing Exoplanet as Iran Launches Its First Military Satellite : Talkin’ Science

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…

Tuesday, April 28 2020

Molten Iron Rain on an Exoplanet

Today, Dr Brad Tucker and Matt discuss a newly discovered exoplanet raining molten iron!

Friday, March 20 2020

It’s Raining Molten Iron! – Talkin’ Science

We’re Talkin’ Science for another week. Today, an exoplanet that rains molten iron, a tear drop shaped star, the impacts of Coronavirus on Mt Stromlo and the ESA/Russian Mars rover is delayed…

Tuesday, March 17 2020