"Until we can separate these signals more clearly, we have to be especially careful not to misinterpret them as signs of life ...

There’s always going to be a way to make something abiotically.” With these words, chemist Eleanor Browne of the University ...

Last month, scientists had announced that they might have identified what appeared to be the most promising signs of alien life discerned so far on the distant planet. However, la ...

Who thought a distant planet could hold the secret to the universe? K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light-years away, recently set ...

The findings came from a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge who studied data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find molecules in the atmosphere of a planet known as K2-18b.

Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b — molecules that on Earth are produced only by living things.