Scientists have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years away that's rapidly disintegrating as it orbits its star every 30 ...

The strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system has been found by a team of astronomers ...

From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid missions, telescopes, and the Voyager craft now ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected potential biosignatures, dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl ...

While cautious about the findings, astronomers detected traces of a chemical that, on Earth, is produced by phytoplankton.

K2-18 b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth and with a diameter of about 2.6 times as large as our planet. It orbits in the ...

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U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

Thanks to NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found the best evidence yet of life on another world outside our solar system.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists say they found indications of potential life on K2-18 b, a planet outside ...