Happy Birthday Pluto!
90 years ago today Pluto was discovered – just the third planet to be found in modern times.
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90 years ago today Pluto was discovered – just the third planet to be found in modern times.
New Horizon was sent off in 2005 to inspect Pluto with a stretch goal of flying past a Kuiper Belt object to help astronomers gain a better understanding of the early solar system. It turns out, there’s new lessons to be learnt…
For the first time, the US military has confirmed that it’s satellites are being interfered with by Russian inspection satellites. The astronomical community has known about this for a while though, and Dr Tucker and Matt discuss this on today’s in depth topic.
Boeing is suffering at the moment, not only is their 737-Max aircraft grounded following two deadly crashes last year, with no end in sight, but now the December uncrewed Starliner
Complementing NASA’s Solar Parker Probe and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii is the latest addition to the solar system probe fleet – the Solar Orbiter.
As astronomers focus on SpaceX’s satellite internet delivery plan involving thousands of satellites, another company – OneWeb – is powering ahead with plans to deliver a rival offering.
The fabric of space-time got a little timey wimey – wibbly wobbly with the discovery of a spinning binary star system causing a real drag. Dr Brad Tucker and Matt
We’ve gotten our first detailed look at the surface of the Sun. Dr Brad Tucker and Matt Miller discuss this awesome view which is giving us insight into our closest
The crowded Earth orbit is posing serious hazards to spacecraft, with last week seeing the potential explosive destruction of two old satellites. You can find us everywhere you are… grab
In headlines this week, Brad and Matt reflect on the Spitzer Space Telescope and discuss NASA’s goal post shifting due to their budget oversight. You can find us everywhere you
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of it’s mission as part of the Four Great Observatories observing the universe around us.
We’ve been talking about the space cookies for a couple of weeks now, but the analysis is in… and it’s not all good news.
DirecTV’s Spaceway-1, now only a backup satellite for the US cable network, suffered a critical failure recently, hear this snippet from this week’s Talkin’ Science, or catch the full ep
China’s gearing up to put their new crewed space capsule in orbit, as the Mars 2020 rover team shortlists 9 names.
Australia’s first astronaut spoke with Trekzone back in 2016 about his journey with NASA. Hear the start of that chat with host Matt Miller.
Dr. Geoff Campbell and his team are researching quantum computing and the ability to send information in a quantum state – to get even faster communications!
The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve.
International researchers suggest that water might have formed a mere 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, far earlier than previously thought, and it might have been a key part of the formation of our universe’s first galaxies.
An accomplished international photographer, Charles Brooks, has captured dazzling new images of one component of the main ring at the Australian Synchrotron and provided an inside view of the electron’s path when it is used. A synchrotron engineer converted radio waves produced in the vacuum chamber into sound files.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range completing a dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA at the end of February.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.
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The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve.
International researchers suggest that water might have formed a mere 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, far earlier than previously thought, and it might have been a key part of the formation of our universe’s first galaxies.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range at the end of February. I spoke with Varda
An accomplished international photographer, Charles Brooks, has captured dazzling new images of one component of the main ring at the Australian Synchrotron and provided an inside view of the electron’s path when it is used. A synchrotron engineer converted radio waves produced in the vacuum chamber into sound files.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range completing a dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA at the end of February.
New Marsquake data could help solve one of the solar system’s biggest mysteries, Saturn’s rings might be deceptively old – based on what we thought
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