However, the journey of discovery in both fields has barely begun, promising endless opportunities for exploration and discovery in the future.” The idea of life on another planet is something that humans have thought about extensively.

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth