Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. There has been ...

HANDOUT/University of Cambridge/AFP via Getty Scientists believe they might have discovered evidence of life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. K2-18b, a planet more than double the ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...

Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet LONDON -- Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system ...

Led by professor Nikku Madhusudhan, the group of researchers studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms ...

Paris: Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising “hints” of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed scepticism.

“That’s how science has to work. The exoplanet known as K2-18b was first discovered in 2015 more than 120 light-years from Earth during NASA's planet-hunting K2 mission. K2-18b is 8.6 times ...

Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world, or lead to an Earth-like twin thought of as Planet B? Or perhaps a technosignature ...

Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare excitement ...

British researchers have discovered molecules on a distant planet in deep space (A. Smith/N. Mandhusudhan/University of Cambridge) British researchers have found the ...