James Webb telescope may have discovered a mysterious, never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan

According to Live Science, the James Webb Space Telescope has detected a curious signal from two distant worlds: both Pluto and Titan, Saturn's largest moon, show the same missing wavelength of light in their composition. This gap in the spectrum points to an unknown molecule—a substance never before observed anywhere in our solar system or beyond. Researchers can't yet identify what this mysterious material is, making it one of the more intriguing puzzles from the increasingly prolific observatory.

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