Space
The extreme physical toll of nine months in space
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back the earth, but their bodies and minds may never catch up.
The Interstellar Black Hole
Spoiler Alert: In the Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar, an astronaut gets sucked into a black hole but manages to communicate with his daughter and find his way out. Richard Easther tells us the… Audio
Recreating Ringworld
In Larry Niven's 1970 science fiction novel, Louis Wu and his companions crash land on a rotating ring world constructed by aliens. Dr Chris Bumby and Bryan Crump discuss whether we might one day… Audio
Exoplanets
Many of the planets that feature in sci fi storylines end up sounding and looking a bit like Earth. Associate Professor Jan Eldridge chats about the chances of that. Audio
India’s space ambitions brighten with success of maiden solar mission
Launched in September, Aditya-L1 is expected to be able to view solar activities without the obstruction.
US military secret spaceplane launches into space
The US military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on its seventh mission.
Plasma rockets in space
Claire Concannon meets GERALDINE, the Gigantic and Extremely Radical Atmosphere-Lacking Device for Interesting and Novel Experimentation. Plus, a team of scientists and engineers designing plasma… Audio
Plasma rockets in space
Claire Concannon meets GERALDINE, the Gigantic and Extremely Radical Atmosphere-Lacking Device for Interesting and Novel Experimentation. Plus, a team of scientists and engineers designing plasma…
AudioIndia's high-science, low-cost space programme
The Detail - After India landed a spacecraft on the south pole of the Moon there's hope the West will stop seeing the country as a land of "snake charmers and elephants".
India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft makes historic moon landing
An Indian spacecraft landed on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India's standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian…
Space Question Mark
There are lots of questions we still have about space but this time it seems space may have a question for us. A photo released from the James Webb Telescope of a star system called Herbig-Haro 46/47… Audio
