00:00A groundbreaking discovery has been made on a planet 124 light-years away.
00:06The presence of two gases there is seen as the strongest evidence yet of life outside Earth.
00:12We have found evidence for possible biological activity on an exoplanet.
00:21We have found signs of biosignature molecules, either DMS or DMDS or both,
00:28both of which are produced uniquely by life here on Earth.
00:33The planet, named K2-18b, is two and a half times the size of Earth,
00:39and its surface is completely covered by ocean.
00:43Large amounts of the gases were detected by a team at Cambridge University
00:47using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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