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A groundbreaking discovery is sending ripples through the scientific community as researchers announce the strongest evidence yet of potential extraterrestrial life on the distant exoplanet K2-18b, located 120 light-years away in the constellation Leo. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a British-U.S. team led by astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan from the University of Cambridge detects chemical signatures of molecules in the planet’s atmosphere that, on Earth, are produced exclusively by living organisms. The findings, published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, mark a pivotal moment in the search for life beyond our solar. . .
