Hosted by Stuart Gary, StarStuff takes us on a weekly journey across the universe to see the death of stars and the birth of new worlds. StarStuff's tour of the cosmos examines those ultimate questions: where do we come from?; and are we alone? From Einstein's relativity theory to quantum mechanics, StarStuff reports on the latest news and discoveries in science, with a special focus on astronomy, space sciences and cosmology.

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StarStuff episodes

Sun not strictly spherical

1505 seconds, 12091392 bytes New facts about Earth's nearest star; what's the link between super-massive and stellar-sized black holes?; and another entrant lines up for the space tourism race.

Saturn moon like early 'proto-Earth'

1438 seconds, 11534336 bytes Titan's hydrocarbon lakes raise more questions than answers; are dark matter and antimatter linked?; and the largest cosmic ray observatory get to work.

Confirmed! Einstein's famous formula is fact

1537 seconds, 12337152 bytes e=mc2 confirmed after 100 years; massive Martian glaciers discovered; Spirit rover powers back to life; and dark matter spotted near our solar system.

Phoenix finishes Mars operation

1556 seconds, 12468224 bytes NASA's Phoenix Lander mission draws to an end; the International Space Station gets an 'Endeavour' makeover; lunar touchdown for India; and Pluto's new horizon.

Swift catch of distant gamma-ray burst

1577 seconds, 12681216 bytes NASA satellite detects the farthest gamma-ray burst ever; a new study of black holes raises more questions than answers; and new data on the Moon's volcanic history.

Mercury's molten past revealed

1546 seconds, 12419072 bytes Examine the volcanic past of Mercury; meet the Melbourne man hoping to become Australia's first space tourist; and NASA fixes a Hubble Space Telescope problem.

India lifts off to the moon

1944 seconds, 15581184 bytes Stuart Gary takes to the heavens with India's first lunar mission; another successful Soyuz flight; space elevators turning science fiction into fact; and Britain opens some of its 'X Files'.

New Mercury view as Messenger flies by

2217 seconds, 17825792 bytes Join Stuart Gary for a close encounter with Mercury; find meteors targeting Alice Springs and Africa; and what is 'spontaneous broken symmetry'?

Falling snow found on Mars

1796 seconds, 14434304 bytes This week: NASA discovers snow on Mars; Messenger flies by Mercury again; Hubble Telescope's service delayed; and fourth time lucky as SpaceX finally makes it to orbit.

China takes great leap in space

1259 seconds, 10117120 bytes This week on StarStuff: China's first space walk; the Large Hadron Collider to restart in early 2009; and one more mission for a Mars rover.