Is it life out there?
 The first direct detection of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System has been made using the Hubble Telescope. Astronomers say the planet - called HD 209458b - orbits a yellow, Sun-like star and is situated 150 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus.
It is a gas-giant world like Jupiter and scientists can see that it is being slowly destroyed by its parent star.
An international team has sent its results to the Astrophysical Journal.
The Hubble observations were made in October and November 2003.
They were carried out by astronomers from the University of Arizona and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US; York University in Canada; and the Paris Observatory and the Geneva Observatory in Europe.
Read the article in BBC News - Science/Nature.
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