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 ...

The discovery of life on another planet is such a moment and now there is news that signs of a gas which on Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been found on a planet called K2-18b.

Daniel Apai receives funding for astrobiology research from NASA, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that ...

The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb's observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily ...

When cinema audiences are discovered sauntering bowlegged down the city streets of Britain this summer, like John Wayne with an over-full nappy, Tim Burton's new Planet Of The Apes will almost ...

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.

But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our planet. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team detected chemical ...

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a ...

More news about our planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. The exoplanet known as K2-18b was first discovered in 2015 more than 120 light-years from Earth during NASA's planet ...

In the meantime, here's what to know about K2-18b and whether the planet could actually contain life. The planet known as K2-18b is a super Earth exoplanet that is about 124 light years away from ...

“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 ...