Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ...
Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable claims. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers studying the ...
This April, news reports linked the stinky gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called K2-18b to possible life on it. The reports, prompted by work led by astronomer ...