{"id":796233,"date":"2025-05-20T07:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796233"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:58:06","slug":"k2-18b-astronomers-double-down-on-claim-of-strongest-evidence-for-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796233","title":{"rendered":"K2-18b: Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life"},"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\">An artist\u2019s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are still arguing about whether we have recently seen the \u201cstrongest evidence\u201d for alien life yet, or simply nothing at all. Now, the researchers behind the original bold claim have reanalysed the data and say they have yet more evidence for molecules with no origin outside of biology \u2013 but critics say this new work undermines the original efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Since Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues announced their remarkable finding that K2-18b, a super-Earth 124 light years away, showed \u201cstrong evidence\u201d for an atmosphere containing the molecules\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480740-astronomers-double-down-on-claim-of-strongest-evidence-for-alien-life\/?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>An artist\u2019s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b NASA Astronomers are still arguing about whether we have recently seen the \u201cstrongest evidence\u201d for alien life yet, or simply nothing at all.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796233","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\/796233","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=796233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}