Webb Spots Strongest 'Hints' Yet Of Life On Distant Planet

Fuente: International Business Times

The exoplanet K2-18b, which some astronomers think is the best known chance of life beyond our solar system AFP Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed scepticism. There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, could be an ocean world capable of hosting microbial life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-US team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.