It’s so…black! You can hardly make out its shape…light just seems to fall into it! That is the word of David Kipping of the ...

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

Europa may be far from the Sun, but it’s one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life—and Europa Clipper is NASA’s answer. From its high-gain antenna to its dust analyzers and ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

This is what the ocean world of K2-18b might look like if you were taking a dip in its vast seasCredit: Amanda Smith/Nikku Madhusudhan Top alien-hunting astronomers at the University of Cambridge ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...