Futurism
February 23, 2022
NASA’s James Webb Telescope is gearing up to officially begin scientific operations later this summer. And scientists are already excited for it to start scanning distant worlds for signs of life.
There are plenty of places to look, of course. Researchers have already confirmed the existence of almost 5,000 exoplanets, with many more on the way. And out of an estimated 300 million planets suspected to harbor a “Goldilocks” region in which liquid water and thereby life could exist, NASA’s Kepler mission alone has confirmed several hundred.