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Webb spots strongest ‘hints’ yet of life on distant planet

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.

The Washington Post on MSN · 10h

Webb telescope detects a possible signature of life on a distant world

A chemical detected on a planet 124 light-years from Earth is produced by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

BBC on MSN · 9h

Telescope finds promising hints of life on distant planet

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

India Today23h

10 Breathtaking Views of the Universe Captured by James Webb Telescope

This 2024 image from NASA’s Webb Telescope reveals the star cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with candidates ...

ExtremeTech2d

Webb Telescope's Planetary 'Autopsy' Reveals Surprising Cause of Death

Instead, the Jupiter-sized planet—whose orbit began ... These new insights come via NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, whose Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...

Asteroid With 3.8% Chance of Hitting the Moon Originated From an Unusual Spot

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

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A star was wrongly accused of a cosmic crime: devouring its own planet

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth.

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This asteroid heading to the Moon triggered an alert from the James Webb Telescope

But thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we now know Earth is in the clear. The Moon, however, might still be in its path. Born in Lorraine on a freezing winter night ...

The Jakarta Post11d

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit Moon

The asteroid, thought to be capable of levelling a city, set a new record in February for having the highest chance -- 3.1 ...

The Cincinnati Enquirer13d

The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds

Most ominously, while Earth is still safe from the menacing asteroid, the odds that our celestial neighbor, the moon, could be impacted have only continued to climb. James Webb Space Telescope ...

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NASA catches a glimpse of 'city-killer' asteroid before it disappears until 2028

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

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