{"id":208743,"date":"2025-03-15T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nasas-webb-could-detect-alien-life-in-hours-heres-how"},"modified":"2025-03-15T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:16:07","slug":"nasas-webb-could-detect-alien-life-in-hours-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nasas-webb-could-detect-alien-life-in-hours-heres-how","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Webb Could Detect Alien Life in Hours \u2014 Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-webb-could-detect-alien-life-in-hours-heres-how.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of searching for familiar biosignatures like oxygen, they\u2019re investigating methyl halides \u2013 gases produced by microbes on Earth that could be more easily detected in the thick hydrogen atmospheres of Hycean planets. The James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers longer wavelengths of light, with greatly improved sensitivity, allowing it to see inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today as well as looking further back in time to observe the first galaxies that formed in the early universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of searching for familiar biosignatures like oxygen, they\u2019re investigating methyl halides \u2013 gases produced by microbes on Earth that could be more easily detected in the thick hydrogen atmospheres of Hycean planets. The James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208743","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}