More and more scientists are coming around to the idea that aliens are out there, somewhere. Maybe more scientists need to also come around to the idea that those aliens might be really weird.
Our search for alien life is getting serious. With better telescopes and a growing scientific consensus that, we’re beginning to look farther and wider across the vastness of space for evidence of extraterrestrials.
Methane is one of the big things astronomers look for when it comes to evidence of alien life. They call it a “biosignature.” But withand only so many telescopes that are powerful enough to survey them, astronomers tend to exclude planets that appear to be nutrient-poor—lacking, say, the concentration of hydrogen that we have here on Earth.
In practical terms, Nicholson’s study—which has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the—could expand the list of exoplanets that scientists consider worth surveying for signs of life.to inspect planets for biosignatures. The priority, in this first year of JWST’s operations, is the seven possible Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, 40 light-years from Earth.
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