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

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

What do you think of when it comes to extraterrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings ...

Other scientists urged caution. A "molecule glimpsed in the air of a planet 729 trillion miles away is a thin reed upon which ...

Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

It would take 120 years to travel to planet K2-18b at the speed of light. Here's how we know what could lie there.

New data from the James Webb could have given us the most likely evidence of life on other planets that we've ever found.

But now researchers have found two gases: dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS. On Earth, that would ...

Astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, have used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect the fingerprints of alien life.

Astronomers claim to have seen the strongest evidence so far for alien life on planet K2-18b, which is orbiting a star 124 ...