
JWST’s Exoplanet Images Are Just the Beginning of Astrobiology’s Future
Hints of life on distant worlds will come from signals pioneered by NASA’s jumbo space telescope
Briley Lewis (she/her) is a freelance science writer and Ph.D. Candidate/NSF Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying astronomy and astrophysics. Follow her on Twitter @briles_34 or visit her website.

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