Tuesday, May 18 2021
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As China’s lander touches down in the Utopia Planitia basin on Mars, a Russian film announces it’ll be racing to film on the Space Station against Tom Cruise’s project and...
Thursday, May 13 2021
•Matt
Earlier this week OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, successfully “pushed off” from Bennu to begin it’s thirty month journey home. Project Scientist Jason Dworkin beams back into Trekzone to...
Tuesday, May 11 2021
•Matt
We’re Talkin’ Science in week 18 of 2021… Dr Brad’s here with details of Blue Origin’s auction of a seat on their forthcoming New Shepard lunch – someone will get...
Sunday, May 9 2021
•Matt
We were live this morning as the booster stage of China’s latest Long March 5B to launch returned to Earth. Space archaeologist Professor Alice Gorman, spaceflight commentator Jonathan Gorman and...
Thursday, May 6 2021
•Matt
Nick Swainston is our guest on this edition of Talkin’ Science. With the help of some machine learning and a good pair of analytical eyes he discovered what’s been called...
Thursday, May 6 2021
•Matt
Following the successful launch and orbital insertion of the first stage of their Tiangong space station, China’s Long March 5B rocket booster is about to befall the same fiery end...
Tuesday, May 4 2021
•Matt
Remembering Michael. Apollo 11’s command module pilot Michael Collins passes away age 90. Extending Ingenuity. The Martian helicopter gets a mission extensions and new directive to aid it’s rover sibling...
Thursday, April 29 2021
•Matt
Recently new analysis of Pioneer data from Venus indicated the presence of pphosphine in the atmosphere. That’s usually a precursor to life, but as Dr McKemmish explains – there’s actually...
Tuesday, April 27 2021
•Matt
As Perseverance works to convert carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere to oxygen in a critical experiment for future crewed missions, Ingenuity flies again – further and longer than the...
Thursday, April 22 2021
•Matt
Astronomers are keen to find these intermediate mass black holes – aka Goldilocks Black Holes – because they’re believed to be the missing link to understand how super massive black...
Tuesday, April 20 2021
•Matt
As Ingenuity flies for just under forty seconds on Mars, President Biden pledges another $1.5 billion to the NASA coffers, former Shuttle Commander Pamela Melroy receives a nomination to the...
Thursday, April 15 2021
•Matt
It’s a comet that has the astronomical community. Is it from beyond our solar system? Is it made up of pebbles or something finer? Join Matt as he chats with...
Tuesday, April 13 2021
•Matt
As a seven year project to build a space debris hunting laser at Mount Stromlo comes to fruition, we celebrate 60 years since Yuri Gagarin and 40 years since the...
Thursday, April 8 2021
•Matt
We’re thrilled to welcome expedition 64’s flight engineer to Talkin’ Science. Colonel Mark Vande Hei beams in from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to chat to Matt about the mission ahead of...
Tuesday, April 6 2021
•Matt
On this Talkin’ Science – Australia will have it’s own space command next year, joining other world powers in orbit. Astronomers have gotten a pretty good view of 2I/Borisov, as...
Monday, April 5 2021
•Matt
Michael Davis AO beams in to chat about the Aussie Space Forum that took place in Adelaide last week.
Thursday, April 1 2021
•Matt
Dr Graham Walker loves his job and he loves teaching others about science too. It’s all part of his outreach program that’s taken him to Africa, Asia and even right...
Tuesday, March 30 2021
•Matt
We’re following three pretty big stories this week on Talkin’ Science. As Japan launches a space junk hunter, French wine that spent a year on the space station gets taste...
Tuesday, March 23 2021
•Matt
Dr Brad's back for another installment of Talkin' Science. On this episode, we dive into a new study hinting at where Mars' water went and Oumuamua - the intergalactic visitor - may actually be a shard of a planetoid… plus astronomers think seven of these visitors visit us every year…
Sunday, March 21 2021
•Matt
Dr Luke Daly at the University of Glasgow led a recovery team to a very rare and precious carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. The Global Fireball Oversatory managed to guide the team to a radius of 400 meters to allow for a very fast recovery - maintaining the purity of the specimen.
Wednesday, March 17 2021
•Matt
Deadly Science was founded by Corey Tutt, the 2020 NSW Young Person of the Year, to meet the demand for STEM resources in remote Australian schools - and to show First Nations children that they too can be part of STEM.
Tuesday, March 16 2021
•Matt
Cosmonauts have fixed a leak in one of the oldest modules on the Space Station. Russia and China sign up to build their own station in lunar orbit and dust found in the Chicxulub Crater confirms the cause of the dinosaur extinction.
Thursday, March 11 2021
•Matt
Dr Adam Stevens beams in to discuss new research pointing to bigger galaxies gobbling up the star forming gas in their neighbouring smaller galaxies…
Tuesday, March 9 2021
•Matt
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.
Thursday, March 4 2021
•Matt
PhD student Marcus Lower beams in to Trekzone to chat about the mega Neutron Stars called Magnetars on this Talkin' Science Interview.
Tuesday, March 2 2021
•Matt
What a show this week, Dr Brad and Matt dive into black holes, a lot of black holes. Not only is one seemingly responsible for shredding a star but scientists believe they've found a nest of small ones.
Thursday, February 25 2021
•Matt
Dr Matt Owers led a study of over 13, 000 galaxies to further our understanding of the construct of the universe. The findings led to some incredible discoveries that have already been published, but now the complete survey has been released.
Tuesday, February 23 2021
•Matt
Perseverance lands and begins it's mission to explore the red planet. The European Space Agency is on the hunt for new astronauts, eleven years since it's last search. And the first black hole ever discovered is bigger than thought, thanks to Aussie astronomers.
Friday, February 19 2021
•Matt
Join Trekzone as we bring you our unique take on space missions in a Talkin' Science livestream. Matt chats with Dr Brad Tucker, Glen Nagle and Professor David Flannery about this very exciting NASA mission.
Tuesday, February 16 2021
•Matt
Plenty of news around Mars at the moment, plus NASA sets launch windows for two critical missions and scientists have found another planetoid in the outer solar system!
Thursday, February 11 2021
•Matt
Professor Flannery is working with the Perseverance team, which is due to land on the Red Planet next week.
Tuesday, February 9 2021
•Matt
SpaceX ups the ante, over 3,000 galaxies get a phsical and there's about to be a traffic jam at the red planet!
