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

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

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

Scientists have reported new observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that strengthen the case that the ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

There's significant questions about whether biosignature that the astronomers detected on the exoplanet is actually a sign of ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...