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

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

Last week, a team of scientists claimed to have discovered possible signs of life on a nearby planet. in fact, their evidence ...

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 ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...

Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous planet. Looks like it’s true.

K2-18b is a little over 120 light-years from Earth — on a galactic scale, this world is practically in our backyard.

A new study shows TOI-270 d is a fiery rocky exoplanet, offering fresh insight into the galaxy’s most common planet type.

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

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.

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