Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes. The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl ...

With the help of a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun, astronomers can search for alien planets that might hold life. The map was created by NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope ...