A team of researchers has recently claimed they have discovered a gas called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party some 120 light-years away.

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. In the 1970s, one of the scientists working on the Viking mission to Mars claimed that his experiment had indicated there could ...

When people believe that we have found life on other planets when we have not, we've lost more than public trust — we've lost ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute who was part of the group ...

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

Such a world might well be hospitable to life, but different ideas exist about the properties of this planet – and what that might mean for a DMS signature. Claims for the detection of life on other ...

The InSight lander studies the subsurface of the red planet digging roughly 300 meters beneath ... While scientists dig for signs of ancient life on other planets and carry out ambitious missions ...

He suggests this has major implications for the search for life on other planets—especially intelligent life. If Earth can serve as proof that life can arise quickly once conditions are ripe ...

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best fits the data we have." ...