In this episode, we will discuss the existence of Nucleobases in the universe, and a new planet with an ultra-short period.

Sources:

Nucleobases: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02824-7

TOI-4552 B: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.18233

This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal.

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In this episode, we will be covering new research suggesting Jupiter’s icy moons may have received the chemical building blocks for life during their formation, as well as a study searching for the first extragalactic exoplanets in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy stream using data from the TESS space telescope. We will also explore what these discoveries mean for the origins of life and the possibility of planets beyond the Milky Way.

Sources:

Jupiter's Moon:

https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ae3559

https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2074

Hot Jupiters:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.15105

This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal.

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In this episode, we will be covering new findings from asteroid Bennu samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and how they suggest that the building blocks of life may have formed in cold regions of space long before Earth existed.

Sources:

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2512461122

This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal.

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In this episode, we will be covering how the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered complex organic molecules inside a dust-hidden galaxy and what this discovery reveals about how chemistry forms in extreme cosmic environments.

Sources:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02750-0

This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal.

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In this episode, we will be covering the discovery of a new earth-sized exoplanet candidate and circumbinary systems.

Sources:

Exoplanet: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adf06f

Circumbinary system: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae21d8

This Episode was Filmed by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Editing by Aidan Chan.

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