Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...

Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world, or lead to an Earth-like twin thought of as Planet B? Or perhaps a technosignature ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

Daniel Apai receives funding for astrobiology research from NASA, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that ...

Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, one of the scientists who led the research on planet K2-18b, went viral on social media on Thursday after he spoke about the "revolutionary discovery" his team made on ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected evidence of life on a planet trillions of miles from Earth, according to a report released Wednesday by a Cambridge University research team ...

Atmospheric analysis of K2-18b, a planet a bit smaller than Neptune, has revealed two biologically produced compounds from the same chemical family, dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide.

“Astronomers detected a possible signature of life on a planet orbiting a star 120 light-years away,” it read. Soon after, The Washington Post followed up with a notification of its ...

He said as he watches the meteor shower this Earth Day, he will reflect on astronomers’ recent discovery of a possible signature of life on another planet 127 light years away. “How long have humans ...

What makes SeaCure interesting is that it is testing whether it might be more efficient to pull planet-warming carbon from the sea, since it is present in greater concentrations in water than in ...

The planet is about 2.6 times larger and 8.6 times more massive than Earth. Scientists believe it may be a “Hycean” world, a class of planet with hydrogen-rich atmospheres and potential global ...