{"id":172037,"date":"2023-09-14T16:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/james-webb-telescope-stumbles-onto-signs-of-possible-life-on-earth-like-planet"},"modified":"2023-09-14T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:35:48","slug":"james-webb-telescope-stumbles-onto-signs-of-possible-life-on-earth-like-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/james-webb-telescope-stumbles-onto-signs-of-possible-life-on-earth-like-planet","title":{"rendered":"James Webb telescope stumbles onto signs of possible life on Earth-like planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-telescope-stumbles-onto-signs-of-possible-life-on-earth-like-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtaj.com\/news\/science-and-space\/james-webb-telescope-stumbles-onto-signs-of-possible-life-on-earth-like-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\">WTAJ<\/a>) \u2014 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have stumbled onto possible signs of life coming from a massive Earth-like exoplanet, NASA confirmed in a release.<\/p>\n<p>K2-18 b is an exoplanet \u2014 a planet outside our solar system \u2014 that\u2019s 8.6 times as massive as Earth. A new investigation with the JWST revealed the presence of \u201ccarbon-bearing molecules\u201d that include methane and carbon dioxide. The findings add to recent studies that suggest that K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, meaning it has the potential to hold a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water-covered surface, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\/2023\/webb-discovers-methane-carbon-dioxide-in-atmosphere-of-k2-18b\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\/2023\/webb-discovers-methane-carbon-dioxide-in-atmosphere-of-k2-18b\" target=\"_blank\">NASA reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers first studied K2-18 b\u2019s atmosphere with NASA\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2019\/news-2019-50\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2019\/news-2019-50\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> in 2019. The results prompted further studies of the massive exoplanet that have changed experts understanding of the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WTAJ) \u2014 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have stumbled onto possible signs of life coming from a massive Earth-like exoplanet, NASA confirmed in a release. K2-18 b is an exoplanet \u2014 a planet outside our solar system \u2014 that\u2019s 8.6 times as massive as Earth. A new investigation with the JWST [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172037","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}