NASA Has No Comment on New Signs of Alien Life

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the strongest signs of alien life to date — but NASA has nothing to say about it, even though the research was conducted using its flagship space telescope. Following news that a team of Cambridge astronomers had discovered the "strongest hints yet" of atmospheric biosignatures — better known as "signs of life" — on the watery exploplanet K2-18b within our galaxy's "habitable zone," the space agency has chosen not to comment. Instead, a NASA spokesperson offered a boilerplate response about the Webb telescope's "challenging" search for life when Washington Post reporters asked about the biosignatures that could point to marine algae or other microbes. "This requires tens to hundreds of hours of observing time for a single planet, the results may not be conclusive due to evolution of the star and planet atmosphere over time, and the planets Webb can search orbit relatively inhospitable stars," the statement noted. "Find ... Read full article.