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New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.
A molecule has been discovered called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet's atmosphere, and it is believed to be the clearest sign of of living organisms outside our solar system. You'd think with ...
In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...
A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.
124 light-years away is ​K2-18b, a distant world orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Leo. It was discovered in ...
📅 Today in History: In 2014, the first discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the habitable zone of another star was confirmed by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The exoplanet, designated as ...
Scientists using the James Webb Telescope have detected a gas on K2-18b that, on Earth, is only produced by living ...