The potential for life beyond Earth has been a tantalizing dream for scientists and the public alike, but recent findings regarding the exoplanet K2-18b should prompt caution against jumping to ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

Now, in a new study published in PLOS ONE, researchers systematically examined how claims about extraterrestrial life are communicated across the scientific ecosystem, tracing their evolution from ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

NASA found a hycean exoplanet, and the search of life outside our solar system continues with excitement. In the area in ...

Recently, researchers allegedly found signs of life on an exoplanet. New research data now makes this seem very unlikely.

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

One of the most profound questions we can ask is whether there are living organisms elsewhere in the universe.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope reported dimethyl sulfide—on Earth only made by microbes—floating in K2‑18b’s ...

"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." ...

K2-18b is back in the news thanks to new research that quells a controversial claim made in April. Researchers at the University of Cambridge had claimed that in the light filtered through the ...