Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet. But they caution much more work is needed to confirm their findings.

PARIS (AFP) — Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism.

K2-18 b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth and with a diameter of about 2.6 times as large as our planet. It orbits in the ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists say they found indications of potential life on K2-18b, a planet outside our solar system.

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

Researchers have detected in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes ...

Professor Nikku Madhusudhan made these observations using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. He found chemical ...

Mans Holmberg, a co-author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told The ...