"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

You may have seen exoplanet K2-18b in the news recently, thanks to newly published research that is destined to be discussed ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find emissions from ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life.

"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...

A research team had previously found that as many as ... For this reason, not much consideration has been given to these stars’ ability to host habitable exoplanets,” Aomawa Shields, a ...

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...