mars 2020 rover

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...

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!

Adjunct Professor David Flannery is our guest this week as we gear up for the return of Hayabusa-2. With the Japanese mission leading NASA's Osiris-REx and Perseverance Rover as well as China's Changy'e 5, what can samples returned from around the solar system tell us?