They have to be out there, and now we have a first direct glimpse of what is likely to be the birthplace of an exomoon – a moon forming in a disk around a planet…
Author: Diego Rodrigues
Lithium is not just in demand for all those new electric car batteries, it seems there’s a problem with missing lithium in the universe. We explore the Cosmological Lithium Problem, take a look at what…
Beware the Squire of Gothos for the Kepler mission has discovered 4 more new free-floating planets. LIGO has observed the first collision between a black hole and a neutron star, and the ocean of Enceladus…
In another wide-ranging episode, we discuss how atmospheric and oceanic chemistry changes wiped out most life on Earth 250 million years ago, the best evidence yet for a third type of supernova, and the importance…
Just when the mysterious dimming of nearby giant star Betelgeuse is explained, a more distant giant star was almost completely blocked out. We discuss the very different explanations for these two stellar events, and we…