SPACE SECRETS: Astronaut Tim Peake Reveals All 🧑‍🚀🚀

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🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Get ready to kick off the New Year with an out-of-this-world episode of Science Weekly!

We’re docking with the International Space Station as world-famous astronaut Tim Peake joins us to reveal what life is really like in space, including how rockets travel beyond Earth. We’re also diving into the science of feelings, with expert tips on how to understand and manage big emotions.

In Science in the News, scientists think the ancestors of sharks may be far older than we once believed, a Welsh farm celebrates the birth of a critically endangered rhino, and neuroscientist Alexa Mosuley explains her discovery that the human brain develops through five different eras.

Then it’s time for your questions. Clement wants to know what electricity actually is, and astronaut Tim Peake answers Jerry’s space-age question about how rockets get into orbit.

Dangerous Dan returns with Chungkingosaurus, a lesser-known but fascinating dinosaur from the Jurassic period.

And in Battle of the Sciences, clinical psychologist Dr Oona McEwan shares science-backed ways to keep your emotions under control when things feel overwhelming.

Plus, Professor Hallux is back at the Happy Health Helpdesk to explain why we get butterflies in our stomach when we’re nervous.

This week, we learn about:

How rockets travel into space
What electricity really is
Why sharks are older than we thought
How the brain develops over time
Simple science tips to manage big emotions

All that and more on this week’s Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along, Explorer. It's a brand new year, but I promise there's still some genius,
0:06.2	glorious nuggets of science that we can find through the universe for the first time.
0:11.7	In 2026, my name's Dan, and it's the Fun Kid Science Weekly.
0:17.6	Every week, you and me, we get together to really try and find those incredible science secrets that are out there.
0:25.7	Sometimes they're way back and beyond at the end of the universe.
0:28.6	Other times they're right here in front of your nose, maybe outside your bedroom window.
0:32.5	We're going to find them all.
0:34.1	Now, this week, we're starting with a bang for this new year. Get ready to dock aboard
0:38.8	the International Space Station with the world famous astronaut Tim Peake answering one of your
0:43.6	questions. In our case, we had failures. We had a thrust of failure. We had electrical system
0:50.2	failure. We had some life support stuff go down. So our commander Yuri, he did actually have to
0:55.3	jump on the joysticks, the hand controllers, and he had to fly the spacecraft manually and dock it
1:01.2	to the space station. And for a new year, we'll head way back in time for a fantastic dinosaur,
1:08.5	and we're exploring the science of feelings,
1:13.6	with some brilliant tips on how to keep them under control.
1:18.9	One of the one that I really like is called Name it to Tame it.
1:22.8	The idea here is that when you say something out loud about how you feel,
1:25.6	like I'm feeling angry or I'm feeling worried,
1:30.4	the thinking part of your brain switches on and helps calm you down.
1:32.4	That's on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:39.2	And let's start with your science in the news.
1:42.3	Scientists think the ancestors of the sharks that we have today
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