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

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

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

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the machine-learning model have at least one Earth-like planet." ...

Webb Space Telescope reveals a surprisingly clear atmosphere on planet TOI-421 b, helping scientists understand the evolution ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

After a groundbreaking discovery that found possible evidence of life in Venus’s acidic skies, Toronto-born Sara Seager is ...

Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, according to a groundbreaking microlensing study using KMTNet telescopes.

An alien planet has been discovered that may be "teeming ... He told the BBC he was emboldened by the amount of gas his team found in a single observation window. He said: “This is the strongest ...

These are the first hints of an alien world that is possibly inhabited ... our solar system's smallest gas planet. To ascertain the chemical composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere, astronomers ...

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