The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

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

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an ...

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.

Scientists discover life-sustaining molecules in exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere – Located 124 light-years away, using NASA’s JWST Scientists have detected molecules associated with biological ...

Scientists have found further evidence of possible biosignature gases on the nearby exoplanet K2-18b, strengthening the case that it could support alien life. Here on Earth, DMS is produced ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered another exoplanet that orbits two suns, like the fictional planet of Tatooine in Star Wars. It's the 17th Tatooine-like planet discovered, but it orbits its ...

An artist’s rendering of planet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) Flora Lichtman is a host of Science Friday. In a previous life, she lived on a research ship where ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that is much larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. For years, the exoplanet orbiting more than 120 light-years away has ...

The most likely reason (when combined with other observation) for seeing 1000 times more of the chemical DMS would be that exoplanet K2-18B is an ocean planet teeming with life. This ocean filled with ...

Here's everything to know about the discovery, the intriguing exoplanet itself and the ongoing search for life in the cosmos. A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on ...