The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

This is the strongest evidence yet there is possibly life out there,' but more data needed to confirm results, says Cambridge ...

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...