Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've detected a molecule only made by living things, on a distant ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

When Star Wars debuted in 1977, astronomers had yet to confirm an exoplanet with the same orbital path as Skywalker’s home world. It would take another 16 years before experts located an actual ...

Astronomers, led by Cambridge University, believe they have found signs of biological activity on exoplanet K2-18b, which is ...

For this reason, not much consideration has been given to these stars’ ability to host habitable exoplanets,” Aomawa Shields, a professor of physics and astronomy at U.C. Irvine, explained in ...

Two years ago it was said that a bloated star had swallowed an exoplanet for the first time. That was probably not true after ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers say they are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant ...

But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as ...

In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for ...