Friday, December 19 2025
•Matt
The European Space Agency has expanded its capability to communicate with scientific, exploration and space safety missions across our Solar System with the inauguration of a new 35-m diameter deep space antenna – the fourth for Estrack, ESA's deep space tracking network.
Thursday, December 18 2025
•Matt
An astronomical instrument featuring Australian-built technology has achieved first light – the crucial moment when a telescope captures its first images – at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Friday, November 21 2025
•Matt
A pair of Sydney PhD students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory – without leaving Earth.
Thursday, August 21 2025
•Matt
Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world's biggest survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions, finding Starlink satellites are significantly interfering with radio astronomy observations, potentially impacting discovery and research.
Tuesday, August 19 2025
•Matt
Australian scientists are on the verge of answering humanity's biggest questions about our cosmic origins and whether we're alone in the universe.
Monday, August 18 2025
•Matt
We're spending another week on air here at the Kestrel Nest EcoHut, and please pardon the interruption to the science and space news for a day ... but we have an incredible product to show off.
Monday, August 11 2025
•Matt
Kestrel Nest Ecohut in southern New South Wales has become the first accomodation in Australia to be internationally recognised as "dark-sky" accommodation, sparking hopes of a new tourism boom.
Saturday, August 9 2025
•Matt
Australian Astronomical Optics at Macquarie University and the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology have partnered to process a cosmic data deluge from Chile's new Rubin Observatory, supporting the world's largest sky survey capturing 20 terabytes nightly.
Monday, June 16 2025
•Matt
For thousands of years, Australians have been looking up at our stars, observing and interpreting star positions for their daily life. Today, Australia has one of the world’s highest rates...
Monday, June 16 2025
•Matt
For thousands of years, Australians have been looking up at our stars, observing and interpreting star positions for their daily life. Today, Australia has one of the world's highest rates of light pollution per person.
Friday, June 6 2025
•Matt
Members have first play access to two great Talkin' Science Deep Dives focusing on Western Australian astronomy achievements.
Saturday, September 14 2024
•Matt
Curtin University has played a major role in an out-of-this-world international study which has taken the search for extraterrestrial life into exciting new territory.
Friday, September 13 2024
•Matt
The world's most sensitive detector sets new limits for finding weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs
Monday, June 3 2024
•Matt
Macquarie University's Huntsman Telescope has successfully demonstrated daytime astronomy
Thursday, May 16 2024
•Matt
Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy
Wednesday, April 10 2024
•Matt
Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our sun
Tuesday, April 9 2024
•Matt
the super-fast speeds of a neutron star's powerful jets have been recorded by CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array and the European Space Agency's Integral observatory
Monday, April 8 2024
•Matt
At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature.
Sunday, April 7 2024
•Matt
An international research team have made incredibly detailed observations of the earliest merger of galaxies ever witnessed.
Thursday, April 4 2024
•Matt
49 new galaxies have been found in under 3 hours by an international team of astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope.
Tuesday, March 19 2024
•Matt
Recent observations of Betelgeuse have caused a bit of a stir and it all centers around it's spin cycle...
Wednesday, February 21 2024
•Matt
It’s Wednesday the 21st of February 2024, these are the science and space headlines you need to know now… Catching you up on the past month we’ve been busy… We...
Wednesday, January 17 2024
•Matt
It’s Wednesday the seventeenth of January 2024, these are the science and space headlines you need to know now… Axiom-3 set for launch within the next 24 hours, the most...
Thursday, January 11 2024
•Matt
It’s Wednesday the 10th of January 2024, these are the science and space headlines you need to know now… The first Commercial Lunar Payload is doomed to fail, following a...
Thursday, January 5 2023
•Matt
Remembering Apollo 7’s Walter Cunningham, Skykraft Launches, a coronal mass ejection recorded, two lunar mission successes and we peer behind Sharpless 54…
Wednesday, November 23 2022
•Matt
Welcome to Talkin’ Science… your bite sized wrap of the latest science and space headlines. Coming up today from red giant supernovas to remote WA radio telescopes painting a map...
Tuesday, June 7 2022
•Matt
It’s week 22 of twenty twenty two, this is Talkin’ Science … catching you up on the months biggest stories with Dr Brad Tucker. Boeing lands safely, completing the final...
Tuesday, February 15 2022
•Matt
It’s 2022’s seventh week, this is Talkin’ Science… Southern Launch firm their partnership with a German rocket maker for launches at Whaler’s Way. SpaceX announces the Polaris Program to forge...
Thursday, November 18 2021
•Matt
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 –...
Thursday, July 22 2021
•Matt
A 13 billion year old hypernova has been found by a team of Aussie astronomers at the Siding Springs observatory. The star had an iron-to-hydrogen ratio around 3,000 times lower...
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...
