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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...