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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
JWST could potentially detect the signature of methyl halide compounds, produced by microbial life in Earth's ocean, on ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN4d
Scientists May Have Found a Breakthrough Biosignature for Alien Life—But There’s a Major Hurdle
The search for alien life is one of the most captivating scientific quests of our time. With the discovery of thousands of ...
NASA’s Webb Could Detect Alien Life in Hours – Here’s How
Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...
Earth.com10d
Weird planets may be the best place to look for strange alien life, according to new research
Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.
NewsBytes17h
James Webb Telescope may detect alien life on 'Hycean' planets
The James Webb Space Telescope could potentially detect signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds, possibly the most ...
If the Webb telescope detects these molecules, they may point to life
These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...
Phys.org on MSN10d
Signs of alien life may be hiding in these gases
Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...
Labroots5d
Searching for Extraterrestrial Life on Hycean Worlds
What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...