Strange New Worlds: Stranger and Newer

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss big developments in astronomy. We're learning more about new worlds every day.

Saturn's biggest moon could support a new kind of alien life

Researchers in the US have been analysing the chemical composition of Saturn's largest satellite, and think the presence of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) molecules in the atmosphere could pave the way for different forms of life to evolve.
 

We Found a Planet Twirling Between Three Suns

And scientists can't yet explain how it got that way.?
 

Stars are vanishing. The reasons why could reveal clues about alien life

Uppsala University is researching what happens to stars that seemingly 'disappear'
 

New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune
 

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Stanley Kubrick's Daughter Rails Against Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists
 

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