Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures ...

NASA has tasked a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist who studies extremophiles with figuring out what aliens ...

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

Could alien life thrive on K2-18b? What to know about the distant exoplanet A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on a planet known as K2-18b located 120 light-years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being greeted with both enthusiasm and skepticism.

The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb’s observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily ...

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed.. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

In fact, the life that could be — thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. Here's everything to know about the discovery , the exoplanet and the ...