James Webb Telescope Finds Hints of Life on Alien World
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The recent excitement around the potential detection of life signs on an exoplanet started in 2023 when the JWST detected potential "bio signature" elements in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, a super-Earth located around 120 light-years from Earth. While likely to disappoint all of us eager for the confirmation of extraterrestrial life, however, it doesn't mean the JWST won't find traces of life in the atmosphere of an extra solar planet, or "exoplanet," in the future.

Though many exoplanets are extreme, violent or at least "alien" in nature whether they're blasted by intense radiation from their stars, lack a solid surface or are frozen relics at the edge of their systems K2-18 b was a tantalizing target in the search for life because it is rather similar to our planet.

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