Scientists have found the strongest test of life on the faraway planet

A giant 124 light-year planet from Earth has provided the strongest evidence so far that alien life can thrive beyond our solar system, astronomers claim.

Surveys by space telescope James Webb for a planet called K2-18 b appear to reveal chemical traces of two compounds that, on Earth, are known only as products of life, reports The Guardian, broadcast Periscope.

And the discovery of chemicals, we know sulfide (DMS) and the digital dysulfide (DMDS), is not the ultimate proof of alien biological activity, but it can draw the answer to the question if we are alone in the universe.

This is the strongest test so far for a biological activity beyond the geox1> solar system, the prof said. Nikk Grandusudhan, an astrophysicist at Cambridge University who directed the observations. We're very careful. We need to ask ourselves both about the validity of the signal and its meaning”.

He added: “Decade later, we can go back in time and realize that this was when the living universe became vulnerable. This may be the turning point, when suddenly the fundamental question of whether we are the only ones in the universe is asked a question that we are able to answer”.

Others are more sceptical, with questions remaining about whether the overall conditions at K2-18 b are favourable for life and whether DMS and DMDS, which are mainly produced by sea phytoplancton on Earth, can be regarded with credibility as biosination. /Periscope/