A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

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

This Week in Space covers the new space age. Every Friday we take a deep dive into a fascinating topic. What's happening with ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

On April 14, singer Katy Perry and five others, including Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, completed a successful ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

Scientists have proposed many hypotheses: Maybe nitrogen escaped into space, or perhaps it ... found thousands of kilometers deep in a young, molten planet. The results were striking.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

But when it comes to the deep insides of planets ... planetary, and space sciences professor. "On the other hand, planets that are colder could have a separate layer enriched in water, possibly ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system ... Plus, because CO 2 condenses into tiny ice particles in the deep cold of space, its presence can shed light on planetary ...