The curious minds at What If embark on a thrilling journey to the unknown world of Gliese 12 b and speculate what awaits us.

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

The planets orbit the same star and are known as Gliese 581c and Gliese 581d. D: Wow. So there IS other life out there? Y: Not so fast. Upon further investigation ...

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps in in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. But do other ...

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 ...

K2-18b is a bit unusual as a planet in the “habitable zone,” where the temperature is just right for water to exist and support life as we know it. Scientists estimate that its climate ...

Astronomers have detected potential signs of life on planet K2-18b, located 700 trillion miles away, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The team discovered chemical traces of dimethyl sulphide ...

Atmospheric analysis of K2-18b, a planet a bit smaller than Neptune, has revealed two biologically produced compounds from the same chemical family, dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide.

The building blocks for life are thought have been brought to Earth by asteroids that bombarded our planet long ago. But the amino acids that form proteins, the ring-shaped molecules that make up ...

The discovery of dimethyl sulfide on K2-18b, a planet 120 light-years away, has ignited hopes for extraterrestrial life due to its potential for liquid water. While scientists are excited about ...