A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

Scientists identify methyl halides as a strong biosignature for alien life, with Hycean planets offering the best chance for ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Exoplanets may harbor alien life; scientists seek biosignatures through advanced exploration. Could they lead to humanity's ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...