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Strong evidence of life on exoplanet K2-18b turns out to be not so strong after all

Ruben Bolling
Jan 19, 2026
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Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence that life existed on exoplanet K2-18b, orbiting a star 124 lightyears away.

The researchers said that their analysis of the planet’s atmosphere using the James Webb Space Telescope indicated t…

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