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For the first time, James Webb telescope detects 5 'building blocks of life' in ice outside the Milky Way


New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around a star outside our galaxy. This cosmic first hints that the stuff of life may be widespread throughout space.

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