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

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

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

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

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

A new study suggests we could be a step closer to figuring out if alien life is out there, trillions of miles away from Earth ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

The planet was the first of ... (unlike our sun), the planet is more like a cousin to the Earth than a twin. By the next year, Kepler had discovered another planet considered the first near ...