Life Beyond Earth Soon?

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]James Webb Telescope found a planet with [music] a 99.7% chance of life.

[00:00:05]Scientists have found new but tentative evidence [music] that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

[00:00:12]This is the strongest [music] evidence yet that there is possibly life out there.

[00:00:16]I can realistically say that we can confirm this signal within 1 to 2 years.

[00:00:21]K2-18b is 2 and 1/2 times the size of Earth and is 700 trillion miles or 124 light years away from us.

[00:00:29]That distance [music] is far beyond what any human could travel in a lifetime.

[00:00:33]Which sounds like a lot, but it is not enough to convince the scientific community. [music] However, it is much more than the one sigma result of 68% the team obtained 18 months ago.

[00:00:43]That earlier result was greeted with much skepticism at [music] the time.

[00:00:48]This could be the tipping point where the fundamental question of whether we are alone in the universe is one we [music] can answer.