"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 ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

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.

The scientists believe the exoplanet, K2-18b, is a “Hycean planet” — meaning it’s home to an abundance of a life-signifying molecules including one that is only produced on Earth by living ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...