Huge news coming from the journal Nature Astronomy. A group from Cardiff University have announced that they have detected phosphine gas in the temperate zone of the atmosphere of Venus. The only way that this gas is produced on terrestrial worlds is from processes related to life. So does that mean we have discovered life on another planet? Let's talk about it on this special episode. Image from NASA.

• Article announcing the discovery- Greaves, Jane S., et al. “Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus.” Nature Astronomy, 2020, doi:10.1038/s41550-020-1174-4.

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