{"id":137484,"date":"2022-03-29T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T03:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/nasas-new-james-webb-space-telescope-will-be-able-to-sniff-out-methane-heres-how-to-tell-if-its-a-sign-of-life"},"modified":"2022-03-29T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T03:03:25","slug":"nasas-new-james-webb-space-telescope-will-be-able-to-sniff-out-methane-heres-how-to-tell-if-its-a-sign-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/nasas-new-james-webb-space-telescope-will-be-able-to-sniff-out-methane-heres-how-to-tell-if-its-a-sign-of-life","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s new James Webb Space Telescope will be able to sniff out methane. Here\u2019s how to tell if it\u2019s a sign of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-james-webb-space-telescope-will-be-able-to-sniff-out-methane-heres-how-to-tell-if-its-a-sign-of-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers lay out a framework explaining how methane could be a biosignature rather than a false alarm.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If an exoplanet\u2019s atmosphere contains methane, that could be a sign of life \u2014 as long as planetary conditions meet certain criteria. The framework for those conditions has now been established in a new study by researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers lay out a framework explaining how methane could be a biosignature rather than a false alarm. If an exoplanet\u2019s atmosphere contains methane, that could be a sign of life \u2014 as long as planetary conditions meet certain criteria. The framework for those conditions has now been established in a new study by researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}