Posted
| UpdatedPhysicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking starts the biggest search for extraterrestrial life, funded by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.
Topics: astronomy-space, air-and-space, galaxies, planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration, stars, telescopes, the-universe, radio-broadcasting, australia, united-states, russian-federation
Posted
| UpdatedAstrophysicist Dr. Alan Duffy from Melbourne's Swinburne University explains how the 10 year Breakthrough Listen project will work and what scientists are hoping to achieve.
Topics: air-and-space, astronomy-space, space-exploration, galaxies, planets-and-asteroids, stars, telescopes, the-universe, radio-broadcasting, australia, united-states, russian-federation
Posted
| UpdatedHost: Steve Cannane. Panel: Peter Lewis, John Hewson and Lyndal Curtis. Interview with Astrophysicist Dr. Alan Duffy. The panel discusses: GST reform discussions; a report on support for renewable energy; Australia’s involvement in the search for intelligent life and FIFA’s Sepp Blatter is showered with fake cash at a press conference.
Topics: space-exploration, astronomy-space, galaxies, telescopes, the-universe, air-and-space, planets-and-asteroids, stars, tax, money-and-monetary-policy, united-states, australia, russian-federation, switzerland
Posted
| UpdatedNASA's unmanned New Horizons spacecraft passes by Pluto.
Topics: the-universe, planets-and-asteroids, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedPluto has 3,500-metre ice mountains towering above plains of frozen methane and nitrogen, while its moon Charon has canyons nine kilometres deep, new photos beamed back from NASA's New Horizons probe reveal.
Topics: space-exploration, spacecraft, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, planets-and-asteroids, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedAn unusually shaped light patch on the surface of Pluto, captured in new NASA imagery, has sparked comparisons to the famed Disney character of the same name.
Topics: space-exploration, spacecraft, planets-and-asteroids, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, united-states
Posted
News Breakfast speaks with one of the team from the Deep Space Communication Complex as they prepare to receive close-up images of Pluto.
Topics: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration, canberra-2600
Posted
| UpdatedHere's Pluto as never seen before, thanks to NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Topics: planets-and-asteroids, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, united-states, australia
Posted
Astronomer Alan Duffy explains how black holes form and why some scientists want the Interstellar film to be used in school science lessons.
Topics: astronomy-space, astronomy-space, blackholes, planets-and-asteroids, australia, melbourne-3000
Posted
Topics: the-universe, planets-and-asteroids, lutwyche-4030
Posted
| UpdatedAlthough they are millions of kilometres apart, Venus and Jupiter will appear to be side by side, separated by just a fraction of a degree, in tonight's night sky.
Topics: astronomy-space, science-and-technology, stars, planets-and-asteroids, tas
Posted
Students in the United States are being given a glimpse of life on Mars in a pioneering program far closer to home than the red planet.
Topics: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, education, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedAstronomer Alan Duffy from Swinburne University spoke with News Breakfast about how the Messenger spacecraft will come to a fiery end and what the Hubble Telescope has brought us over the last 25 years.
Topics: astronomy-space, astronomy-space, the-universe, telescopes, galaxies, planets-and-asteroids, australia
Posted
| UpdatedNASA has announced it will launch a mission to pluck a large boulder off an asteroid and sling it around the moon, becoming an ad hoc destination to prepare for future human missions to Mars.
Topics: space-exploration, planets-and-asteroids, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedTopics: planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration
Posted
| UpdatedThere could be hundreds of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy which might support life, according to new research.
Topics: astronomy-space, research, planets-and-asteroids, canberra-2600, act
Posted
| UpdatedNASA is closer than ever to finding a twin for the Earth, astronomers say, announcing the discovery of eight new planets that circle in the habitable zones of their stars.
Topics: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, united-states
Posted
NASA has its eyes fixed again on manned space exploration with the launch of Orion last week, but is it worth it? And we get closer to exploring Pluto.
Topics: astronomy-space, science-and-technology, planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration, spacecraft, the-universe, melbourne-3000, australia, vic, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedA comet the size of a small mountain has whizzed past Mars, wowing space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.
Topics: astronomy-space, science-and-technology, planets-and-asteroids, australia, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedIndia's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed with pride after winning Asia's race to the red planet.
Topics: planets-and-asteroids, air-and-space, accidents, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, india, asia
Posted
| UpdatedAn Australian leading a scientific team on NASA's next mission to Mars will play a key role in choosing what could become the first samples brought back to Earth.
Topics: planets-and-asteroids, research, people, brisbane-4000, united-states, australia
Posted
| UpdatedNASA scientists predict they are within 20 years of finding the evidence proving we are not alone in the universe.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration, telescopes, the-universe, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedPeer through the lens of Sydney Observatory's telescope and discover the wonders of our winter dome.
Topics: education, science, human-interest, science-and-technology, astronomy-space, galaxies, planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration, stars, telescopes, sydney-2000
Posted
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, galaxies, planets-and-asteroids, space-exploration, stars, telescopes, sydney-2000
Posted
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, telescopes, stars, planets-and-asteroids, galaxies, sydney-2000