"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 ...

Last week, a team of astronomers ignited global headlines by announcing the "strongest evidence yet" for life beyond our solar system, ushering in what appears to be the latest chapter in humanity ...

Data suggests K2-18b is a "world with an ocean that is teeming with life," said study lead author Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge in England. A whopping 8.6 ...

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 ...

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.

Why astronomers are unconvinced K2-18b is home to alien life : Short Wave Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines.

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.

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 ...