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

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

A study by the University of Cambridge detects potential signs of life on exoplanet K2-18b. While optimistic about the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

An artist's interpretation of the exoplanet K2-18b. Could the alien world contain a biosphere?. | Credit: A. Smith, N.

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...