Scientists have found the best ever hint of alien life on another planet. But they aren’t getting entirely excited just yet. In what might eventually be hailed as the first fingerprint of ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.

And yet, studies find ... this evidence suggests that K2-18b is a Hycean planet, a name used to describe exoplanets covered by a hydrogen ocean potentially teeming with life. While scientists ...

It may be a long time until we know if there’s life in the cosmos, but a group of scientists say they’ve found the strongest signs yet ... atmosphere of a distant planet that are associated ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

The signal from the planet’s atmosphere has reached what scientists call “three-sigma” certainty, meaning there’s about a 0.3 ...

The researchers found strong evidence ... of life on Earth to alien environments. Carol Cleland, a leading philosopher of science, has called this the problem of finding “life as we don ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our ...