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

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

Based on observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the study points to alien life on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet ...

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"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited ...

Many scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before an alien ecosystem is discovered, but experts are skeptical about a ...

When both traditional astronomy and Christian theology placed the Earth at the centre of the cosmos, few imagined the stars ...

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