Nasa could find alien planets that host life after new oxygen breakthrough
5 years, 2 months ago

Nasa could find alien planets that host life after new oxygen breakthrough

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have found a new way of finding oxygen on distant planets that could help them discover alien life. The technique could be used by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope to sniff oxygen on planets in distant solar systems. Now scientists hope that the new technique could allow them to spot the same signal coming from other planets, and in so doing perhaps spot planets that might be home to alien life. Technology like the James Webb Space Telescope is the best hope for examining such distant planets, since they are too far away to ever visit or even to see in much detail, but it requires incredible advanced technology because of the weakness of the signals.

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Scientists closer to finding alien life after uncovering new 'telltale signs' of an inhabited planet
9 months ago

Scientists closer to finding alien life after uncovering new 'telltale signs' of an inhabited planet

Daily Mail  

Alien life has yet to be found in space, but a new study has uncovered 'telltale' signs of an inhabited planet. Scientists ran simulations on a hypothetical planet, finding NASA's James Webb Space Telescope could spot the gasses as easily as it could ozone on Earth. Alien life has yet to be found in space, but a new study uncovered …

Scientists speak out about reports Nasa telescope found signs of alien life
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Scientists speak out about reports Nasa telescope found signs of alien life

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Recent excitement about the discovery of signs of alien life on a distant …

Forget Mars, are there aliens on… K2-18b? Discovery of planet twice as big as Earth emitting gas 'only produced by life' sparks huge excitement among astronomers
11 months ago

Forget Mars, are there aliens on… K2-18b? Discovery of planet twice as big as Earth emitting gas 'only produced by life' sparks huge excitement among astronomers

Daily Mail  

Astronomers could finally show that alien life does exist on a distant planet following observations today. Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years away – sits within the habitable zone of its star in the Leo constellation. Scientists made an exciting and potentially ground-breaking discovery in the search for alien life - …

Scientists spot entirely new details on distant planet using Nasa James Webb Space Telescope
2 years, 4 months ago

Scientists spot entirely new details on distant planet using Nasa James Webb Space Telescope

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have spotted new details on a distant planet, in a major breakthrough …

Scientists may detect signs of extraterrestrial life in 5 to 10 years: Study
3 years, 11 months ago

Scientists may detect signs of extraterrestrial life in 5 to 10 years: Study

Hindustan Times  

Research shows that a new telescope could detect a potential signature of life on other planets in as little as 60 hours. "What really surprised me about the results is that we may realistically find signs of life on other planets in the next 5 to 10 years," said Caprice Phillips, a graduate student at The Ohio State University, who …

Molecular oxygen spotted in another galaxy for the first time
5 years, 1 month ago

Molecular oxygen spotted in another galaxy for the first time

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Astronomers have spotted molecular oxygen in another galaxy for the first ever time. …

NASA's new space telescope, James Webb, can be used to identify planets with oxygen
5 years, 2 months ago

NASA's new space telescope, James Webb, can be used to identify planets with oxygen

Firstpost  

Scientists cannot go, visit other planets to find signs of life and can use this telescope to do so. In a recent study, scientists have found that oxygen molecules collide to produce a strong signal and according to scientists, Webb can detect the signal present in the atmosphere of exoplanets. When starlight passes through the atmosphere of exoplanet’s, oxygen generally …

NASA's James Webb Space telescope may be used to identify planets with oxygen
5 years, 2 months ago

NASA's James Webb Space telescope may be used to identify planets with oxygen

India Today  

Researchers in a recent study have found out how to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for quickly identifying nearby planets that could help in researchers search for life and search of the worlds that are uninhabitable due to vaporization of oceans. In a recent study, scientists have found that oxygen molecules collide to produce a strong signal and according …

New way of detecting oxygen on exoplanets could help find life
5 years, 2 months ago

New way of detecting oxygen on exoplanets could help find life

CNN  

CNN — The search for oxygen on other planets outside of our solar system, called exoplanets, is thought to be an aid in the search for life outside of Earth. The scientists believe their new method could speed up the quest for life by making it easier to tell if individual exoplanets could host life on their surfaces by peeking …

Scientists to measure atmospheric composition of potentially habitable planets to detect alien life
6 years, 10 months ago

Scientists to measure atmospheric composition of potentially habitable planets to detect alien life

India Today  

We might have another lead to detect alien life. The scientists say that the biological products in the atmosphere of potentially habitable planets which are outside our solar system may help us spot alien life. An artist's depiction shows the possible surface of TRAPPIST-1f, on one of seven newly discovered planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that scientists using the Spitzer …

HOW DO SCIENTISTS STUDY THE ATMOSPHERE OF EXOPLANETS?
6 years, 10 months ago

HOW DO SCIENTISTS STUDY THE ATMOSPHERE OF EXOPLANETS?

Daily Mail  

This diagram shows how light passing from a star and through the atmosphere of an exoplanet produces Fraunhofer lines indicating the presence of key compounds such as sodium or helium This is often used to look for helium, sodium and even oxygen in alien atmospheres. Astronomers used observations from the Hubble space telescope to spot the strange exoplanet orbiting a …

We'll find alien life in 20 years, claims Nasa
10 years, 8 months ago

We'll find alien life in 20 years, claims Nasa

Daily Mail  

'Astronomers think it is very likely that every single star in our Milky Way galaxy has at least one planet,' said MIT professor, Sara Seager One hundred million worlds in our galaxy are able to host alien life, according to a ‘conservative’ prediction by Nasa. This Nasa graphic shows how the number of confirmed planets has dramatically increased since the …

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