(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

The presence of the DMS molecule was detected with a statistical confidence of three sigma, corresponding to approximately a ...

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

That exoplanet is 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. It's described as much larger than Earth but smaller than ...

A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs 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 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Earth-like chemical signatures potentially linked to life in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b, located 124 light-years away, representing the ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in a blistering, dense atmosphere rather than a watery Hycean planet. Webb ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...