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NASA’s Webb Telescope Just Took A Big Step Forward In The Search For Another Earth


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James Webb Space Telescope finds no atmosphere on Earth-like TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet

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[NASAWebb] TRAPPIST-1 b: We give it a one (M-dwarf) star review; it lacks atmosphere. Webb found the dayside temperature of this rocky exoplanet to be about 450º F (227º C) — suggesting it has no significant atmosphere

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SETI's new machine learning algorithm works like Google's "reverse image search" on a galactic scale, and has already uncovered eight currently unexplained signals. Researchers train the algorithm on simulated alien signals, then look back through old data to see if we missed anything in the noise.