A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know.

It would take 120 years to travel to planet K2-18b at the speed of light. Here's how we know what could lie there.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. Its blistering host star is so close, the radiation is effectively ...

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

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...