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Wednesday, 1 February 2012
StarStuff Podcast Controversial new study suggests pulsars act as a giant magnet. Plus: bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth; and powerful solar storm slams into Earth, but is the Sun weakening?
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
StarStuff Podcast A new study claims every star in the Milky Way galaxy is likely to be orbited by at least one planet. Plus: Phobos Grunt spacecraft crashes back to Earth; astronomers discover rare gamma-ray binary star system.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
StarStuff Podcast Russia's crippled Mars probe to crash back to Earth as Soyuz rocket launch fails. Plus: Astronomers compile dark-matter map of the universe; and scientists discover a galaxy at the very dawn of time.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Astronomers have created a vast cosmic map revealing an intricate web of dark matter and galaxies spanning a distance of one billion light-years.
Friday, 16 December 2011
Scientists using the largest computer simulation of the universe to recreate the web like structure of of an infant universe.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Scientists observing the early moments of a supernova have for the first time confirmed that some are caused by the destruction of white dwarfs.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
StarStuff Podcast Have scientists discovered a second Earth? Plus: could life from our planet spread across the solar system and beyond?; and astronomers find two monster black holes.
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
StarStuff Podcast Latest mission to Mars launches from Cape Canaveral. Plus: is faster-than-light travel claims rocking the foundations of science?; and does the 'God particle' exist?
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
StarStuff Podcast Astronomers detect universe's first atoms. Plus: does the Moon have magnetic memory?; and Russian mission to Mars falls short.
Friday, 11 November 2011
US scientists have found two interstellar clouds of original gas, which contain only original elements created moments after the universe's birth.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
StarStuff Podcast Scientists answer how our solar system possibly came into being about 4.6 billion years ago. Plus: 400-metre-wide asteroid speeds past Earth, closer than Moon's orbit; and super-massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way eats entire worlds.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
One of the fundamental laws of physics does not appear to be constant throughout the universe and may change depending on where you are, suggest researchers.
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
What inflates our universe? Dr Henry Frystacki reflects on 2011's Nobel Prize for Physics.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
StarStuff Podcast Fresh evidence that comets gave Earth its oceans. Plus: astronomers capture new image of interstellar turbulence after 30-year effort; and how a planetary collision put Uranus on its side.
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
StarStuff Podcast Sun-like stars could have Earth-like planets. Plus: Astronomers pinpoint Earth's address on cosmic roadmap; and 15,000 asteroids possibly threaten Earth.