Scientists closer to finding alien life after uncovering new 'telltale signs' of an inhabited planet

By Stacy Liberatore | DailyMail.com |

THE DAILY MAIL - Alien life has yet to be found in space, but a new study has uncovered 'telltale' signs of  an inhabited planet.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) discovered that greenhouse gases, like those emitted on Earth, would mean a distant world had been terraformed - or artificially altered.

Signatures of methane, ethane, and propane, along with gases made of nitrogen and fluorine or sulfur and fluorine could indicate technology-using life forms due to the gases only forming through manufacturing.

Scientists ran simulations on a hypothetical planet, finding NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could spot the gasses as easily as it could ozone on Earth.

UCR astrobiologist and lead study author Edward Schwieterman said: 'For us, these gases are bad because we don't want to increase warming.

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