NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered signs of a vast ocean on the planet K2-18 b. The exoplanet lies 120 light-years away, likely has an ice core, and may be a new type of habitable world. Webb may have detected a molecule there that’s only linked to life, but much more research is needed.
- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescopediscovered signs of a vast ocean on the planet K2-18 b.
- The exoplanet lies 120 light-years away, likely has an ice core, and may be a new type of habitable world.
- Webb may have detected a molecule there that’s only linked to life, but much more research is needed.
The most potentially game-changing discovery from the NASA observatory — and the one to be most cautious about — is a hint of a molecule called dimethyl sulfide (DMS), which is only known to come from life.
The only thing known to make DMS is life, mostly phytoplankton in Earth’s oceans. Therefore, if it were confirmed on K2-18 b, it would be a “very good smoking gun for some sort of biological activity,” down there, Madhusudhan said.
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