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What Is Dimethyl Sulfide?
Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...
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Scientists Claim Water on Earth Was Formed Naturally and Did Not Land as a Fluke of Hydrated Asteroids
Water is one of the biggest factors behind life on Earth. Researchers are always looking for answers to how water formed on ...
Earth’s Water Origin Unlocked: Meteorite’s Hidden Hydrogen Surprise
Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...
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Chemical Hints on a Distant Planet Offer ‘Strongest Evidence Yet’ for Life Outside Our Solar System, Astronomers Say
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...
Scientists Detected Potential Signs of Life on a Distant Planet. This Is Not a Drill.
A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...
Have astronomers found extraterrestrial life on a distant planet? Here's the discovery
Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...
Astronomers Say They’ve Recorded the Strongest Sign Yet of Life Beyond Earth
New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.