The name of Dr Nikku Madhusudhan exploded in the public domain with his breakthrough research on a planet named K2-18b. What ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected what some scientists are calling the strongest evidence yet of potential alien life on exoplanet K2-18 b.

The first super pressure balloon flight of NASA's New Zealand Balloon Campaign reached its float altitude after lifting off ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

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

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found signs of what could finally settle the age-old question: Are we ...

British astronomers claim to have found the strongest evidence of life on exoplanet K2-18b, which was first discovered in ...