Talkin’ Science

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Michael Davis AO beams in to chat about the Aussie Space Forum that took place in Adelaide last week.

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...

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...

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…

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.

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.

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.

Dr Adam Stevens beams in to discuss new research pointing to bigger galaxies gobbling up the star forming gas in their neighbouring smaller galaxies…

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.

PhD student Marcus Lower beams in to Trekzone to chat about the mega Neutron Stars called Magnetars on this Talkin' Science Interview.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Professor Flannery is working with the Perseverance team, which is due to land on the Red Planet next week.

SpaceX ups the ante, over 3,000 galaxies get a phsical and there's about to be a traffic jam at the red planet!

Talkin' Science is back for it's third season on Trekzone, and what a blockbuster show we have to open. Dr Brad's back with details of Axiom Space and SpaceX's bold bid to launch an all private crew to the Space Station, SpaceX's mammoth satellite launch a few weeks ago and as President Biden settles into the Oval Office, it appears Space Force is here to stay.

New research indicates the Milky Way - and other galaxies - experienced a growth spurt and matured in their childhood... we get up close with asteroid Psyche, the iron rich asteroid is the next target of our exploration of the solar systems leftover chunks ... and good news for osiris-rex, the sample hatch is closed and the spacecraft can return to Earth with it's precious cargo intact.