Water on Mars and why we should explore it - ABC The Drum
Alan Duffy
Chatting to ABC's The Drum about the water on Mars with the implications that has for our chance to explore it, and the importance of doing so for our future on Earth.
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A soaking gun of water on Mars - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
On Earth, where there's water there's life so "follow the water" has been NASA's scientific guide in exploring Mars. That effort paid off today with the confirmation that liquid water is flowing on the surface right now. This has implications for both the possibility of life and habitability by human explorers.
Read MoreAurora explained
Alan Duffy
I was delighted when three RMIT students asked me to help explain the Aurora (the Northern / Southern lights) with them in this fantastic animation. There's something really engaging about this old school style that more recent digital graphics can miss. But decide for yourself..!
Read MoreTornados on the Sun - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
I chatted about a recently discovered tornado on the Sun, the most distant galaxy and alien abductions in Northern Territories. Being asked about Probes by Virginia Trioli is a career first.
Read MoreUkulele in a Dome - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
NASA has undertaken a year long isolation experiment with 6 volunteers living in a dome no more than 11m wide and 6m to practice psychological survival techniques for the voyage to Mars. Unbelievably one of the volunteers brought a ukulele along to learn. They're first out of the airlock I'm guessing.
Read MoreSpace lettuce - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
Every fortnight I get to sit on the couch and chat about the latest awesome science and events in space. Today was all about Rosetta watching Comet67P flare into life as well as space lettuce. Tastes like rocket apparently. Apologies for the puns.
Read MoreGalaxy Explorer and New Horizons - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
More awesome results from Rosetta and in particular it's epic Philae lander has found organic material on the surface of Comet 67P
Read MoreEarth's Closest Twin - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
The discovery of the closest Earth-like world yet has huge implications for the search for alien life. We think this world will likely be too hot but it means rocky worlds similar in size to us really are everywhere... So where are all the aliens?
Read MoreBreakthrough Listen - ABC The Drum
Alan Duffy
I made it to the panel of ABC's The Drum to chat about finding aliens with the amazing Breakthrough Listen project and the lead role Australia is playing in this endeavour.
Read MorePluto Flyby - ABC Lateline
Alan Duffy
Quite ridiculously I found myself chatting to THE Tony Jones on ABC Lateline about the awesome Pluto flyby mission.
Read MoreWaking Blackholes - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
Blackholes can lie dormant for decades or more, supermassive blackholes like the one in the centre of our galaxy can silently wait for millions of years, before flaring into life as the brightest objects in the sky thanks to accreting material swirling around them glowing X-ray hot.
Read MorePhilae lander wakes up - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
I was pretty stoked to see the lander had made a surprise reawakening and rushed down to the studios to share my happiness!
Read MoreNASA's Flying Saucer - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
NASA has an outrageously cool new spacecraft concept for landing ever larger cargo loads onto Mars. And yes it looks like a flying saucer.
Read MoreAustralia's dark matter detector - 7's Weekend Sunrise TV
Alan Duffy
Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise had a feature on favourite dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere (it's the first and only one so that's an easy choice, as well as being a Co-Investigator which helps!)
Read MoreOn the Sun's Future - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
A chat on the couch about our Sun's Future and the protoplanet Ceres
Read MoreAustralia to host dark matter detector
Alan Duffy
With the excitement of our funding secured to build the world's first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere in Stawell, Victoria we hosted VIPs and a film crew from 7's Sunrise Weekend. It was 30+ degrees and 100% humidity a km underground but that's where you need to go to search for dark matter!
Read MoreMen of Influence 2015 - Men's Style Magazine
Alan Duffy
Unexpected (and slightly surprising) honour but I made Australia's "Men's Style Magazine" Men of Influence 2015 list, crazily this was alongside legend Hawthorn Hawks player Shaun Burgoyne. Still, I took it as a good sign that science was being considered as a key part of Australia.
Read MoreRogue Spacecraft - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
A Russian spacecraft is spinning out of control and I get to rant about the awesome physics of Interstellar too. Fun chat on the couch.
Read More25 Years of Hubble - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
The worlds most famous telescope just turned 25, I looked back on some of its iconic images and greatest discoveries.
Read MoreScience Funding - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
The tricky issue of science funding in Australia, which thankfully was soon rectified (for a year or two) after this broadcast. I also got to chat about Blackholes which is far more fun but without the funding we couldn't actually study these beasts so the two issues go hand in hand.
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