"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable ... A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s atmosphere suggests ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the strongest evidence yet of life off Earth.

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

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials ... These conditions classify the exoplanet as being in what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone – where planets have the right conditions ...

"Earth-like planets in the habitable zone -- the region ... This made it possible to capture an image of the exoplanet without the star. "Our coronagraph directly captures an image of the ...

The new coronagraph design made it possible to estimate ... next-generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), being dedicated to exoplanet science, many coronagraph designs ...

And although the first sign of possible extraterrestrials ... These conditions classify the exoplanet as being in what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone — where planets have the ...