With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers say they are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant ...

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New analysis casts doubt on potential biosignatures detected in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b that could indicate the ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers said they were able to detect signs of sulfur-based molecules called dimethyl sulfide or DMS, which on Earth are only produced by life, primarily ...

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"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...