Recent reports of the James Webb Space Telescope detecting signs of life on a distant planet outside the Solar System are somewhat premature. That’s the conclusion of research conducted by scientists from the University of California, Riverside (UCR). While likely to disappoint all of us eager for the confirmation of extraterrestrial life, it doesn’t mean Webb won’t find traces of life in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the future.
The excitement around the potential detection of life signs
