{"id":795611,"date":"2025-04-24T14:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795611"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:52:06","slug":"signs-of-alien-life-on-exoplanet-k2-18b-may-just-be-statistical-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795611","title":{"rendered":"Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Illustration of the exoplanet K2-18b<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center\/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Apparent signs of alien life on the exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise, according to a new analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 April, Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues made the stunning claim that K2-18b, a super-Earth 124 light years away, showed strong evidence of an atmosphere containing dimethyl sulphide, a gas that on Earth is only produced by living things.<\/p>\n<p>But Jake Taylor at\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2477928-signs-of-alien-life-on-exoplanet-k2-18b-may-just-be-statistical-noise\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration of the exoplanet K2-18b NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center\/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Apparent signs of alien life on the exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise, according to a new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/795612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}