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Did Scientists Detect Life on Another Planet? Experts Weigh in on Bombshell Biosignature Report
Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party ...
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Did we actually find signs of alien life on K2-18b? 'We should expect some false alarms and this may be one'
"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...
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New analysis casts doubt on 'biosignatures' found on planet K2-18b
Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...
Have signs of life been found on another planet? Scientists are calling that into question
"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...
Scientists detect signature of life on a distant planet, study suggests
Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...
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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect ...
Astronomers Say They’ve Recorded the Strongest Sign Yet of Life Beyond Earth
New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.