The story so far: On April 17, an international research team published a paper in which it reported that the distant exoplanet K2-18b may be habitable. The claim was met with cautious excitement ...

Madhusudhan et al. just reported ~3 sigma detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in the atmosphere of K2-18 b in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The claim is intriguing, ...

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Scientists have detected a molecule in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, 120 light-years away, strongly linked to life on Earth. Astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan suggests this is the strongest evidence ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

Astronomers have detected potential signs of life on planet K2-18b, located 700 trillion miles away, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The team discovered chemical traces of dimethyl sulphide ...

Scientists have announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide—a chemical that, on Earth, is only produced by living organisms—in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. This is the second ...

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 ...

It's in the oceans of the early Earth that they became biology. Image: An illustration shows a hycean world which could be what K2-18 b is. Pic: Reuters Exactly how isn't known. But life evolved.

The source of these molecules in K2-18b’s atmosphere is unknown, but DMS and DMDS are only produced on Earth by microbial life, such as marine phytoplankton. However, DMS is not always a ...

The place in question is not within our solar system, but on a giant planet called K2-18b, located 120 light-years away. "It is in no one’s interest to claim prematurely that we have detected ...