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

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" ...

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.

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 ...

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

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