A team of scientists have discovered a molecule on a far-away planet that may indicate that it holds some form of life. The massive world, known as K2-18b, orbits another star roughly 120 light ...

The planet is more than double Earth’s size and more than 8 times more massive. It's in the so-called habitable zone of its star. The study appeared in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

E.T. phone home planet K2-18b. A team of astronomers shared ... open myself up to new adventures and step outside of my comfort zone,” said the 70-year-old cohost, who consulted ground control ...

K2-18b is a rare exoplanet that orbits its star in a habitable or "goldilocks" zone Paris ... most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists ...

WASHINGTON: In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system ...

K2-18 b is 8.6 times as big as Earth and has a diameter about 2.6 times as large as our planet. It orbits in the "habitable zone" — a distance where liquid water, a key ingredient for life ...

But we should never have had to look so far. Venus—the planet closest to us, and our twin in terms of size and mass—should by rights have developed in parallel to Earth. Instead it became a ...

The previous discovery was the first time carbon-based molecules were found in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the habitable zone and added to studies suggesting it could be a Hycean planet ...