NASA has quietly hit pause on what it billed as its first dedicated hunt for alien biosignatures, reacting to fresh data that ...

Could alien life exist on planets nothing like Earth? Scientists think a surprising new method could unravel this mystery. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, suggest that ...

NASA has temporarily stopped part of its investigation into possible signs of life on a faraway planet, after two years of ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet K2-18b. A new... Astronomers have been poring over last week's claim of the ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. In a ...

It’s one of humanity’s oldest questions. Are we alone? Is there life elsewhere in our galaxy or the universe? Scientists last week made a stunning announcement that they had found the “strongest ...

Scientists are debating whether data from the James Webb Space Telescope is really pointing to biosignature gases in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b. (Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) | NASA-GSFC) ...

Astronomers have been poring over last week's claim of the detection of life-associated gases in the atmosphere of a distant planet named K2-18b — "the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a ...