Is NASA About to Announce They Found Aliens?

It's time for "Nerd News," covering the most important news for your brain. Here's a quick rundown of this week in science . . .

 

Rumors swirled this week that the James Webb telescope had found ALIEN LIFE, and that NASA was getting ready to announce it. But it sounds like it was all way overblown.

 

There's a planet 120 light years from us called "K2-18 b" that COULD have life.

 

 

Last fall, we found evidence of dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere. On Earth, it's a molecule only made by living things, especially microscopic plants in the ocean. So that's what the rumors were based on.

 

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Experts have been pushing back on it. 

They say finding "potential biosignatures" is very different than finding full-on ALIENS. And no one who actually knows about this stuff has said an announcement is imminent.

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In other space news, The doomed Paragrine moon lander that had issues after it launched this month finally fell back to Earth yesterday and burned up over the South Pacific. 

It's the one that had a bunch of random stuff on board, including several people's cremated ASHES.

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