"Decades from now, we may look back at this point in time and recognise it was when the living universe came within reach," ...

Scientists are currently planning two major space missions to search for life in space: NASA's Project HWO and Project LIFE, led by ETH Zurich. If one of these missions were to discover life on an ...

A team from the University of Cambridge made the discovery on exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away from Earth.

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

Explore the groundbreaking discovery of extraterrestrial life signs on exoplanet K2-18 b with chemical evidence from NASA.

WASHINGTON >> In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...