18 OCT 2023 · NASA announces asteroid Bennu contains carbon and water, a comet explosion may have kick started agriculture in Syria and the light pollution from artificial satellites has now reached the point where the brightest stars in the night sky can't compete for our attention...

25 SEP 2023 · A successful crash landing back to Earth. Seven years and a handful of days after it was launched, OSIRIS-REx returns home with the all important samples of asteroid Bennu. Within 90 minutes NASA teams had secured the payload and moved it to a temporary clean room at the Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City. There, it's under a constant bath of nitrogen - to avoid Earthly contamination. Your deep dive into OSIRIS-REx, and the only podcast to speak with NASA scientists is right here on Trekzone's Talkin' Science.

14 SEP 2023 · Hydrogen surrounding NGC 4632 could make it a rare polar ring galaxy. A bubble of galaxies has been found - measuring a billion light-years across, and Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un meet at an east Russian cosmodrome seemingly to discuss space collaboration efforts…

24 AUG 2023 · Second time's a charm. Chandrayaan-3 makes India the first country to reach the Moon's southern pole. Artificial Intelligence takes the pressure off … finding a Near Earth Asteroid has now gotten twice as fast… and Australia's three space launch providers have news to share. From a multi-year deal at ELA to permanent facility approval at Southern Launch and streamlining technology integration at Gilmour Space.

20 JUL 2023 · It’s the 29th week of 2023. In research led by a West Aussie, a new type of stellar object has been discovered. India launches Chandrayaan Three, their second attempt to land on the lunar surface. And more evidence found supporting the theory that Mars once had the building blocks of life…

11 JUL 2023 · Southern Launch's new corporate look, possible fingerprints of gravitational waves, a planet that shouldn't exist, and just what the heck is THAT on the moon?

1 JUN 2023 · Welcome to the 200th Talkin' Science. A test for the SETI network continues, plus we now have to Question our understanding of fast radio bursts, studying lightning on Jupiter and China's next epedition to their space station lifts off.

19 MAY 2023 · The 15th biannual space forum was recently held in Adelaide, the home of Australia's space industry. Trekzone was invited to attend and I spent the day learning about the incredible work being undertaken to advance Australia's sovereign space capabilities.

18 MAY 2023 · Fast Radio Burst research, testing new meta-optical surfaces, a record break amateur rocket launch and Artemis 2 training begins…

9 MAY 2023 · The 15th Australian Space Forum. James Webb snaps an asteroid belt, China's mysterious space plane and Virgin Galactic announces it's getting back into flying.