Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge in England announced on April 17 that they had found the strongest evidence yet that life may exist somewhere besides Earth. Using data from NASA's James ...

Hints of life may have just flickered into view from a world 124 light-years away, and the signal is coming through the James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet K2-18b, a so-called Hycean candidate ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

Astronomers have been poring over last week's claim of the detection of life-associated gases in the atmosphere of a distant planet named K2-18b — "the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a ...

A team of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope believe exoplanet K2-18b is a Hycean world, covered in a global ocean. Credit: Shang-Min Tsai / UCR illustration A team of scientists is ...

A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of past or present life linked to biological activity, on an exoplanet named K2 ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...