Earth calling... there is something out there

BRITISH researchers have found the "strongest evidence yet" of alien life beyond our planet.

- By Rosie Shéad and Rachel Vickers-Price

While studying exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away, the team found signs of chemicals which are produced on Earth by simple organisms such as marine phytoplankton and bacteria.

Chemicals dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and dimethyl disulphide (DMDS), were detected by researchers from Cambridge University using the James Webb space telescope.