Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet – but new observations from JWST suggest ...

A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

Other researchers also analysed the same data using different statistical models and didn't find evidence for the presence of ...

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The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery: potential signs of life on K2-18b, an exoplanet ...

Signs of life on K2-18 b are revisited as a new NASA-led study finds no conclusive evidence for dimethyl sulfide, tempering ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study.

A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of ...

Earlier this month, I learned that potential signs of life were discovered on an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is 120 light-years away from Earth.

Textbooks say that mitochondria exist to supply cells with energy, but experiments in fruit flies suggest they are also ...