Exploring life in space

Artist's impression of a cloudy, Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

Scientists have developed a "color key" to detect extraterrestrial life in planetary clouds

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A team from Cornell University and the Carl Sagan Institute has measured spectra of colorful microorganisms in Earth's clouds, creating a color guide that will help identify biopigments as biological signatures in the clouds of cloudy exoplanets.
thanks for the correction. The corrected translation would be: SwRI scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to model the geothermal processes in the subsurface that may explain how methane reached the surface of Eris and Maki Maki, two dwarf planets in the distant Kuiper Belt. The figure suggests three possibilities, including the likelihood that liquid water exists within these icy bodies at the edge of the solar system, far from the sun's heat. Credit: Southwest Research Institute.

Astronomers reveal surprising activity on the dwarf planets Eris and Maki Maki

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The Webb telescope has observed what appear to be young methane deposits on the surface of Eris and Maki Maki
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