Astronomers may have found the first exoplanet outside of our own galaxy according to a paper published on September 22, 2020. While finding exoplanets (planets orbiting around other stars) has become an ordinary thing, over 4,300 have already been discovered in our galaxy, this would…
On September 14, 2020, a group of researchers published the news of the discovery of an unremarkable gas in Venus’s atmosphere: phosphine (PH3). Within no time their findings sent tremors throughout the Internet. But why? Well, on Earth phosphine is a byproduct of biological chemistry…
There’s been a lot of media chatter recently about a giant star’s imminent death. Unfortunately, the rumours of an impending supernova burning across our skies are grossly exaggerated. But, if we haven’t all got prime seats for the century’s largest light and sound show, what’s…