The Twilight Years of the Space Station Are Here…
As NASA announces it’ll crash land the space station in eight years, astronomers reveal their discovery of a trojan asteroid orbiting in a Lagrange Point and for the first time...
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Making Heavy Elements from Hydrogen & Helium
Stars aren’t just inhabiting our universe – it turns out they’re major contributors to it. From hydrogen and helium produced in the big bang, to all of the heavier elements...
New Footage from Southern Launch; A Mysterious Energetic Object and Clues to A Martian Origin Story in Costa Rica
Southern Launch release footage from their maiden test launch attempt in September. Something’s releasing giant bursts of energy three times an hour and radio astronomers are baffled. And the hydrotermal...
Looking Back at 42 Talkin’ Science Interviews
2021 saw us launch an extension of Talkin’ Science – giving time to the newsmakers in science and space… and we learnt about everything from phosphine to boson particles, radio...
Looking Back on 2021’s Science and Space News
Dr Brad’s beaming in one last time in 2021 – with a look back on the top 10 stories of the year…
The James Webb Space Telescope Launches
Decades in the making, billions over budget and with a namesake controversy in tow, the James Webb Space Telescope has launched and is on it’s way to an orbit far...
Talkin’ Science News Roundup
It’s our second last show of the year and we’ve got a round up of the latest bite size science and space news making headlines over the past couple of...
Murriyang Proves Einstein Right… Again
In 2003 Murriyang, the Parkes Radio Telescope, discovered a binary pulsar system. These two long decayed stars now strobe the cosmos with regular electromagnetic radiation. Using these bursts, an international...
Powering Ahead to 2022 : Gilmour Space’s Big Year Ahead
Queensland rocket company Gilmour Space has seen incredible growth this year and are gearing up for their first launch from the Bowen Launch Complex next year. CEO Adam Gilmour takes...
Finding Boson Clouds to Understand Dark Matter
Dr Lilli Sun at the ANU is co-leading a study within the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, postulating the unseen matter making up the universe. We know something has to be out there...
Nissan’s Lunar Rover; Adelaide’s Space Hub and Peering Into Black Holes and Neutron Stars with IXPE
After forty eight episodes, this is our final regular show for 2021. On the show, Nissan is teaming up with the Japanese Space Agency to build a lunar rover. A...
Arecibo Lives On : How Astronomers Are Using The Lost Dish To Study Galaxies
PhD candidate Jennifer Hardwick is leading a research team into understanding the Fall relation – the correlation between stars and the galaxies in which they live…
Exoplanet Cannonball; Laser Communications and Black Hole Collision Course
NASA’s LCDR launches to prove the laser communication concept | Exoplanet Cannonball, an ball of rock filled with iron is orbiting a red dwarf. | And the closest supermassive black...
A 10 Year Plan to Mitigate Bushfires
As we power ahead to the end of 2021, we’re Talkin’ Science with Dr Brad. This week – Aussie astronauts are about to become a thing, Earth Observing gets a...
DART Set To Fly; Dealing with Space Junk and Making It To Orbit For The First Time
It’s the 47th week of 2021 and NASA is gearing up to launch the DART mission, an Aussie company joins the global fight to tackle space junk and ASTRA reaches...
Russia Makes Space Debris; Astronomers Find A Baby Black Hole and Artemis Delayed
In a special, solo, edition of Talkin’ Science Matt brings you the latest in the world of science and space. We’ve got everything covered in a bite sized podcast –...
Aiding Dark Matter Research : Professor Simon Driver on AESOP
Professor Simon Driver beams in to explain how AESOP will help the European Space Agency’s VISTA and 4MOST telescopes survey over two million galaxies looking for more information on dark...
Arrivals and Departures; Gravitational Waves and Hubble’s Minor Fix
Scientists have presented the largest number of gravitational wave detections to date. The Hubble team gets one science instrument running again, as they continue troubleshooting the glitch. And Crew-2 returns...
It Wasn’t Aliens… Dr Danny Price On What We Heard From Poxima Centauri
It turns out the alien communication detected from Proxima Centauri in 2019 was interference from here on Earth… Dr Danny Price, part of the SETI team beams in to explain...
Curtin University’s Binar-1 Phones Home!
Built from the ground up by some smart people at Curtin University in Perth, cubesat Binar-1 was launched into orbit from the Space Station last week and has phoned home...
It Wasn’t Aliens; A Medical Delay for Crew 3 & A Massive Solar Flare : Talkin’ Science
We’ve got special guest co-host Thomas Crow with us for this edition of Talkin’ Science. We’ll be catching up on Crew 3’s launch delay, find out the depth of the...
A White Dwarf; An Extragalactic Exoplanet and Blue Origin’s Space Station
Astronomers have found the future of our sun, a really old white dwarf thats switching on and off, the first extra galactic exoplanet has been found and Blue Origin’s plans...
Finding Exoplanets with Radio Astronomy
Radio astronomy is entering the fray when it comes to finding exoplanets, with new research postulating that radio signals from red dwarf stars are actually the magnetic interaction with their...
Australia Gears Up To Build A Lunar Rover, An Intermittent Radio Signal From The Centre of the Milky Way and Peering Into Our Solar System’s Future…
Australia set to join an elite club, when we build a lunar rover for Artemis, an intermittent radio signal from the centre of the Milky Way has been discovered by...
A Trinary Star System Yields A Planet; Lucy Prepares for Launch and The Case of Pluto’s Disappearing Atmosphere…
We’re just eleven weeks from the end of the year, and on today’s Talkin’ Science – the first potential exoplanet to orbit three stars – a trinary star system –...
Our Captain, In Orbit : As InSight Records A 90 Minute Marsquake!
Captain Kirk is set to take flight, with William Shatner aboard Blue Origin. NASA’s InSight Lander records a 4.5 magnitude Marsquake for over an hour! And a new theory postulates...
Uncovering The Origin of Gamma Rays
Dr Matt Roth from Mt Stromlo has discovered the origins of gamma rays after studying old Hubble data and observations from the Fermi Gamma Ray Observatory. It’s unlocked a key...
Earthquakes in Australia : Rare But Not Uncommon
Only a handful of severe earthquakes have rocked Australia in the past 100 years, from Meckering in Western Australia to Newcastle in New South Wales and the Northern Territory as...
Inspiration 4 Returns to Earth as A New Calculation Shows Black Holes Will Shrink
It’s time for another edition of Talkin’ Science. Dr Brad and Matt have details of studies into China’s lunar samples, Inspiration 4’s return to Earth, a Russian film crew heading...
Star Formation is “Dirty” Work – As New Research Proves
Professor Deanne Fisher and an international team have discovered what happens during stellar formation… and where heavier elements come from…
Jeopardising The Space Station as Perseverance Gets It’s First Sample
It’s the thirty fifth week of 2021 and today we’re talkin Perseverance successfully drilling for rocks the second time round, the Federal Aviation Administration in the US grounding Virgin Galactic...
Move Over Mercury – There’s A New Closest Object!
It’s the 34th week of 2021 and NASA’s new space telescope clears it’s final testing and is now ready for launch. An asteroid has been discovered orbiting the Sun, closer...