In the closest star system to us, the closest planet to us lives. It orbits it’s parent star every 11 hours and could be one of three planets in the Proxima Centauri system…
Fast Radio Bursts are a relatively new discovery on the astronomical scene, first detected in 2007. Astronomers originally believed they burst out from the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies – but new measurements indicate that’s not the case…
Astronomers have been studying Mars’ twin moons – Phobos and Deimos – and believe that a few million years they actually formed a ring system around the red planet.
It’s an eclectic mix of stories for this weeks Talkin’ Science. Not only do astronomers think Mars had rings, but they’ve discovered fast radio bursts aren’t coming from supermassive blackholes like they thought and we have the second confirmation of Proxima Centauri B, the closest exoplanet to Earth!
The Trek Geeks are holding a special livestream event on Thursday, June 11 with special guest Jonathan Frakes. Founders Bill Smith & Dan Davidson join Matt to chat about the current world climate and this special event.
Last weekend was a monumental one for NASA’s crewed spaceflight program, meanwhile Australian astronomers have paved the way for new understandings…
Aussie astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder have successfully completed a two decade search for the universe’s missing matter. Find out what that means on today’s Talkin’ Science Story of the Week…
While the crucial next step in commercial spaceflight for the American space agency was waiting for launch, SpaceX’s Starship prototype exploded at their Boca Chica proving grounds.
Following a delayed launch into orbit, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are now on board the International Space Station as the third phase of the crucial “demo-2” mission is completed.
What a monumental weekend of crewed spaceflight we’ve just experienced, as America continues to show us the dichotomy it is.
Dr Trek is back with Trekzone to dissect and analyse what we know about the next Star Trek spin off.
A successful afternoon at the Cape as SpaceX marks an historic milestone of returning American astronauts to launches on American soil, nine years after the space shuttle program ended.
What a week of science and space news.
A couple of myths are doing the rounds on-line at the moment and Dr Brad decided it was time to set the record straight.
We’re LIVE to the Kennedy Space Center this morning as SpaceX’s Dragon capsule is set to take flight as part of the final crucial test phase before it can be pressed into service.
An international research team has discovered the swirling gas of a newborn planet.
An accomplished international photographer, Charles Brooks, has captured dazzling new images of one component of the main ring at the Australian Synchrotron and provided an inside view of the electron’s path when it is used. A synchrotron engineer converted radio waves produced in the vacuum chamber into sound files.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range completing a dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA at the end of February.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.
An international study led by Australian astronomers has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date in three new research papers. The study also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave detector and found further evidence of a “background” of these invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some major mysteries of the universe.
Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
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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
An accomplished international photographer, Charles Brooks, has captured dazzling new images of one component of the main ring at the Australian Synchrotron and provided an inside view of the electron’s path when it is used. A synchrotron engineer converted radio waves produced in the vacuum chamber into sound files.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range completing a dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA at the end of February.
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
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.
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