In this case, they are taking information from a new study that was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and using ...

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

K2-18b recently made headlines after researchers claimed to observe possible “signs of life” in the planet's atmosphere. So, ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

The new observations were carried out using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which captured signals in the mid-infrared ...

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they’d found a molecule in a faraway planet’s atmosphere that could signal life there. But a new analysis by University of Chicago ...

A team of researchers has recently claimed they have discovered a gas called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of ...

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis of their data suggests the ...

Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's James ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the data suggests the finding could be statistical noise ...