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.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Earth-like chemical signatures potentially linked to life in the atmosphere ...

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 ...