A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

A new study suggests that life may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets once conditions become favorable. By analyzing ...

Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life ... planets, with a diameter greater than ...

There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than ... Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been found on a planet called K2-18b. Now, the prospect of really finding alien ...