Trekzone • Talkin' Science
Sunday, January 18 2026
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Cosmic glass found only in Australia reveals an asteroid impact while the future of space travel may rely on salty ice and space-based solar panels could help the net-zero transition....
Monday, January 12 2026
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The Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey, DEVILS, has released its initial data and a series of recent publications explaining how a galaxy’s location in the Universe can significantly influence its...
Sunday, January 11 2026
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We learnt that the ancient universe warmed up before it lit up, a rocket test proved bacteria can survive launch and re-entry and new evidence for Mars’ solid core… This...
Sunday, December 28 2025
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Selfies from space as an Aussie nanosatellite completes its first phase, twin black hole mergers reveal cosmic evolution secrets and new tech is taking kilos off the early universe’s supermassive...
Saturday, December 20 2025
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Southern Launch’s Koonibba Facility sees AT01 fly, we deep dived into bringing James Webb into focus and how traffic vibrations saved a tonne of research money. This is the wrap...
Monday, December 15 2025
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A pair of Sydney PhD students helped sharpen the view of humanity’s most powerful space observatory – without leaving Earth. The remarkable technical breakthrough saw the development of a software...
Wednesday, November 26 2025
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From two Sydney students fixing an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope to a global analogue space mission and new theories on the location of Martian Ice… This is...
Friday, November 21 2025
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Silvia Mantovanini, PhD student at the Curtin University node of ICRAR is beaming in to take us on a deep dive.
Saturday, November 15 2025
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From the stunning new radio image of the Milky Way to the dancing dwarf galaxies predicting our future and the existensial crisis we’re potentially yet to face about minerals for...
Thursday, October 2 2025
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Varda invited us to join their fireside chat about the future of the orbital economy with Voyager Technologies – who are pioneering a space station called StarLab to also conduct...
Wednesday, October 1 2025
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More from #IAC2025 : Day 2. A press conference on expanding space cooperation between Australia and Europe. Key focuses include the upcoming commissioning of the New Norcia 3 Antenna in...
Wednesday, October 1 2025
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Plus, heads of NASA and the AustralianSpaceAgency sign a Framework Agreement extended the Technology Safeguards Agreement signed last year. We also hear from the Bureau of Meteorology’s Space Weather Engagement Lead about forecasting...
Monday, September 1 2025
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It’s the end of the fourth week in August 2025, we went from learning about wastewater contaminants boosting green hydrogen production to peering into a newly forming solar system before...
Friday, August 22 2025
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It’s the end of the third week in August 2025, we went from deep diving about the Dwarf 3 to learning about quantum clocks before learning about the unintended consequence...
Friday, August 15 2025
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It’s the end of the second week in August 2025, we went from diving into this awesome accomodation and it’s recognition in the astronomy world to IAC’s record breaking pregistrations...
Monday, August 11 2025
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The Kestrel Nest EcoHut, in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains, has been identified by DarkSky International as a place with little light pollution and a clear night sky. Louise...
Saturday, August 9 2025
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It’s the end of the first week in August 2025, we went from Gilmour’s Test Flight 1 to learning about Sydney Rocketry Students being crowned as world champs before learning...
Friday, August 8 2025
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Gilmour Space Technologies has completed the maiden test launch of Australia’s first locally designed and built orbital rocket — and while it didn’t make it very far, it did achieve...
Friday, July 11 2025
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It’s the end of the first week in July 2025, we went from hearing about the latest infrared innovations to pondering the question of what do we do when an...
Friday, July 4 2025
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It’s the end of the fifth week in June 2025, we went from learning about objects flashing in radio waves and x-rays to unprecedented insight into the formation of an...
Monday, June 23 2025
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Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have made a discovery of a new cosmic phenomenon: ASKAP J1832-0911. This object emits pulses of radio waves and X-rays for...
Saturday, June 21 2025
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It’s the end of the third week in June 2025, we went from learning about International Dark Sky Week to quantum computing potentially leading the way forward for cancer and...
Monday, June 16 2025
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For thousands of years, Australians have been looking up at our stars, observing and interpreting star positions for their daily life. Today, Australia has one of the world’s highest rates...
Friday, June 13 2025
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It’s the end of the second week of June 2025, we went from peering into the early universe with the first image from SKA-Low to learning about the potential real...
Monday, June 9 2025
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After years of planning, development and construction on two continents – the Australian piece of the Square Kilometre Array puzzle has taken flight with spectacular images of the early universe...
Saturday, June 7 2025
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It’s the end of the first week in June 2025, we went from diving into the latest research on asteroid Bennu’s sample to realising there could be less water than...
Friday, June 6 2025
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Members have first play access to two great Talkin' Science Deep Dives focusing on Western Australian astronomy achievements.
Tuesday, June 3 2025
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NASA Goddard's Jason Dworkin is beaming in once again to take us on a deep dive on this episode of Talkin' Science.
Saturday, May 31 2025
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Direct from The Australian Space Summit, Exhibition and Gala Awards Night...
Monday, March 17 2025
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It’s the end of the second week of March 2025. After cyclone Alfred blew past the Trekzone Studio… Here’s the science and space headlines we tracked… Varda’s W-2 returns to...
Friday, March 14 2025
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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 before it’s return, now Amy...
Saturday, March 1 2025
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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 we knew, and the slowest...
