A new discovery could represent the most concrete evidence of alien life to-date, but scientists caution that further studies are needed.

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in a blistering, dense atmosphere rather than a watery Hycean planet. Webb ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, but scientists ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

Other scientists urged caution. A "molecule glimpsed in the air of a planet 729 trillion miles away is a thin reed upon which ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope finds molecules that could only be produced by life in the atmosphere of an alien ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of large quantities of biosignature chemicals — only known to be made by life on Earth — on an exoplanet more than 100 light-years away. It could be the most ...

This could be the tipping point,’ says study author. In a nutshell Scientists detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl ...