(MENAFN- Live Mint) "Human's search for life outside its solar system may soon come to an end. The James Web Space Telescope, the biggest one ever to sent into space, is all set to gaze into another solar system after possible signs of emerged on one of the far-off planets there to a report by The Times, scientists have discovered a gas in a planet's atmosphere which could be \"only produced by life\". The planet is called K2-18b and is located beneath a constellation Leo and on a star K2-18. K2-18 is believed to be roughly half the size of the Sun planet is around 2.6 times bigger than the Earth scientists, according to the report, have found dimethyl sulphide (DMS) gas in the planet's atmosphere and it may have been produced by a \"phytoplankton in marine environments\".The researchers are more than 50 per cent confident that DMS is present in the planet's atmosphere. Scientists have been yet unable to prove that DMS could be produced in the absence of living beings. But it is not a \"conclusive evidence\".Also read: Aliens 'hitching rides' on meteors to colonise Earth? Study says...Where is K2-18b located?K2-18b is located 124 light years away from the Earth, making the planet one of its close neighbours. To get to the planet, it would take around 2,175.44 years in human years for a probe travelling at the speed of the Voyager spacecraft. Voyager spacecraft travels at the speed of 38,000 mph Webb Space Telescope's search for lifeThe telescope, which was launched from the Guiana Space Centre in 2021, conducts infrared astronomy. It has revealed several wonders since its launch, including the breathtaking pictures of the space it famously sends to NASA was made at the cost of $10 billion and a 6.5-metre, gold-plated mirror and several complex instruments cooled to temperatures only a few degrees above zero read: Earth's history: Should this phase be called the Anthropocene era?It has discovered a planet Wasp-107b, 1,300 light years away from Earth. Then there was GJ1214, a planet with mass eight times that of our planet. It has also discovered the giant planets of the Orion Nebula
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