Professor Deanne Fisher and an international team have discovered what happens during stellar formation… and where heavier elements come from…

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

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

Macquarie University’s Doctor Christian Schwab developed a new kind of spectrometer that brings solar systems into sharper focus to aid in the discovery of smaller exoplanets. On this episode, we

It’s the thirty third week of 2021 and Russian space junk likely caused the loss of a Chinese satellite. Fifteen years on since the textbooks were changed – why does

It’s an innovative concept that’ll help astronauts use ground penetrating radar to effectively search below the surface as we reach out to the stars in the years ahead. MAPrad is

It’s the thirty third week of 2021 and we’ve got details of SpaceX being contracted to launch a billboard into space, but not to hit us with ads from the

A new theory postulates that the slowing of Earth’s rotation in it’s younger years contributed to increased oxygenation of the atmosphere, thus helping more complex life to evolve. We’re joined

It’s the 32nd week of 2021.. and we’ve got details of the shocking moment Kepler caught the end of a massive yellow star… an x-ray image of black hole V404

It’s one of Saturn’s largest moons, visited by Cassini in 2014. Now, new analysis suggests the subsurface ocean could be home to primitive life thanks to the geothermal activity we

It’s the thirty first week of 2021.. Light has been detected bouncing off a black hole, proving Einstein right again… the new Russian module sent the Space Station spinning in

Welcome to another edition of Talkin’ Science, it’s the 29th week of 2021 and the first image of a Saturn-like planet – an exoplanet forming moons in a ring. Marsquakes

In this the 28th week of 2021… Jeff Bezos and company make it to orbit and back again… Another rare insight into a supermassive black hole.. and astronomers find a

It was taking up to forty days for Australians to receive Earth Observing Data, now with the launch of Nova Sar 1 – that’s been dramatically cut down to around

The headlines in this the twenty seventh week of 2021.. They Made It. Richard Branson and the crew on Unity 22 make it to sub orbital space, successfully completing an