While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

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

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

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

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

On Earth, DMS is made by ocean plankton, then quickly broken down in the atmosphere through photochemical and other reactions ...

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

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines.

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

The signal from the planet’s atmosphere has reached what scientists call “three-sigma” certainty, meaning there’s about a 0.3 ...

Independent analysis raises doubts about alien life on exoplanet K2-18b Weak sulfur gas signals found in K2-18b data earlier ...