Indian-origin astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan is leading what may be a major step forward in the search for alien life, with ...

The research detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere that on Earth are only produced by living organisms ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

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

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

A new study by astronomers about distance planet K2-18b has led to what they’re calling one of the most promising sign of extraterrestrial life in the universe.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

In what may be the most significant clue to alien planet life yet, scientists studying K2-18b have detected two sulfur-based ...

A team from the University of Cambridge made the discovery on exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away from Earth.

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have detected the presence of molecules in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b that, on Earth, are solely produced by simple life f ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...