It’s known for its bright and fast-moving shooting stars resulting from Halley’s comet, the most famous comet of all, which ...

Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

K2-18b is an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star called K2-18, chilling 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. It’s ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Indian-origin astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan is leading what may be a major step forward in the search for alien life, with ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Telescope found signs of possible extraterrestrial life on exoplanet K2-18 b, detecting biosignature gases DMS and DMDS.

Scientists have found strong signs of possible life on exoplanet K2-18b, a "Hycean world," suggesting new avenues in the search for alien life.

Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

PARIS (AFP) — Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism.

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...