The finding isn't yet certain, and it only indirectly supports the notion that the planet harbours life, but it is the ...

A distant world unlike any planet in our own solar system could potentially be “teeming” with life, according to a ...

Astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, have found chemical fingerprints on the exoplanet K2-18b, found 120 ...

It would take 120 years to travel to planet K2-18b at the speed of light. Here's how we know what could lie there.

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

Astronomers announced that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

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