Artist’s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b Image courtesy of Smith/N. Mandhusudhan
Joel Kontinen
Could we ever see
and hear of life outside our solar system? Some scientists are supposing that
we might have some news of it.
One of the
strongest signs of life outside Earth was announced this week, but some
astronomers cautioned that it is extremely difficult to verify. That raises the
question: will there ever come a point where we have definitive evidence
of extraterrestrial life, and when might that be?
The supposed signs of life were picked up by the James
Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from the exoplanet K2-18b, 124 light years
away. Nikku Madhusudhan at
the University of Cambridge and his colleagues reported a signal of
dimethyl sulphide (DMS).
But some scientists are saying that there is no life on the planet.
Source:
By Alex Wilkins 2025 Will we ever have confirmation of life outside our solar system? | New Scientist17 April
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