Beyond the Last Star: Journey to the Edge of the Universe 🌌🚀

Fun Kids Science Quest

Fun Kids

Science, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Science Quest! 🚀 This week, we are counting down to World Ocean’s Day by tracking deep-sea defenders, investigating a spectacular rocket explosion, and going beyond the edge of the cosmos to find out what space is actually inside of.

💥 Rocket Crash: Blue Origin’s latest test rocket has exploded right at launch! Find out what went wrong and why it couldn’t even get off the ground.
🐬 Saving the North Sea Dolphins: With World Ocean’s Day coming up on June 8th, Ruth Williams (Head of Marine Conservation at The Wildlife Trusts) joins us to explain why governments need to step up right now to protect the amazing dolphins swimming off our coasts.
🧬 The Blueprint for Forever: Daliah asks a massive question: why can't humans live forever? We dive into the biology of aging and look at why our cells have an ultimate expiration date.
🌌 The Edge of the Cosmos: Andrew Tolley from Imperial College London tackles Shiloh’s mind-bending question: what exactly is space inside of? Prepare to have your brain stretched to the absolute edge of the universe!
🌱 Dangerous Dan: Watch out for the Cape Sundew! It looks like a beautiful, sparkly plant, but it’s actually a ruthless carnivore that uses sticky, glue-covered tentacles to trap insects and digest them alive.
🧠 Brain Box: Geomicrobiologist Jess Mackie from the British Geological Survey steps into the Brain Box to introduce us to the invisible, microscopic army of microbes running our world from deep underground!

And hop into the submarine with young explorer Marina Ventura and her trusty digital sidekick, Map App! On this week's wild ocean adventure, we are discovering the incredible, hidden impact that marine creatures have on the health of our planet. From microscopic plankton making the air we breathe to deep-sea engineers changing the ocean currents, find out how the animals inside the water actually keep the whole ocean alive!

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0:00.0	Ahoi, explorer. Shall we search out some secrets smuggled around the solar system? It's time to uncover
0:07.8	everything in a brand new science quest. My name is Dan. This is the smartest show in the universe.
0:14.6	All your questions answered. Experts spoken to strange things learned about. This week, we're tackling a truly mind-bending question
0:23.1	about what lies beyond the edge of everything and one picture is that space is what we call
0:31.0	infinite so it's endless it goes on forever and ever so if you imagine if you sent out on a rocket
0:36.4	and your head is in a straight line as far as
0:38.7	possible you can do, you'll keep going on forever and ever. You'll never hit an end. Also, you can
0:45.0	hear about a shimmering, strangling suffocator and we'll step into the brain box with a geomicrobial
0:52.0	biologist introducing us to the invisible army running the world.
0:58.2	Imagine if you turned the tallest building in the world upside down, pointed it into the ground.
1:04.7	That's how deep some of these holes were. And I find it so interesting that microbes can be found
1:10.5	in rocks so far below our feet.
1:13.8	It's all on the way in a brand new science quest.
1:20.3	Let's start with your science in the news then.
1:22.7	Blue Origin, that's Jeff Bezos's space company.
1:26.2	They've committed to build rockets to send NASA astronauts to the
1:29.6	moon, and they had a test run of a rocket last week. It was due to take some satellites up to help
1:35.3	with internet. The problem is it exploded right at the start, didn't get off the ground, it erupted
1:41.8	into a huge fireball gas.
1:45.2	Orange flames licking at the clouds could be seen from miles around.
1:50.4	Now, good news, no one was injured, but it does cast doubts over whether Blue Origin
1:55.8	can get everything ready safely for NASA in time.
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