Astronomers have discovered that the exoplanet K2-18b, located 124 light years away in the constellation of Leo, may be one of the most promising candidates for life beyond Earth. With a size more ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed. Contrary to earlier theories that these exoplanets might be covered by deep ...

A team of astronomers recently made the bold claim that they had found "the strongest evidence yet" that life exists anywhere else besides Earth – setting off a media frenzy. By studying data from ...

A growing number of studies have cast doubt on earlier claims about signs of life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation, concluding that the available data doesn’t support ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet that’s 124 light years away, has two molecules that can only be made by simple organisms on Earth. It’s the best evidence yet that life is possible beyond our planet. Scientists ...

Are Hycean exoplanets, which are a combination of hydrogen and a potential liquid water ocean, less common than previously hypothesized? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Although scientists at the University of Cambridge suggest they have detected chemical signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth, a Harvard professor says there are problems with that ...

Humanity may be one step closer to finally answering the question of whether we're alone in the cosmos with a definitive "no." A team of astronomers said it has found signs of what could be ...

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for DMS was weak at best, while other experts cautioned that sub-Neptunes may ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines. Researchers said... Exoplanet K2-18b: Home to alien life or noisy data?

Back in April, the world became captivated by the news that maybe, just maybe, we weren't alone in the universe after all. If extraterrestrials were to exist on a distant exoplanet as a team of ...

Today we’re ditching the drama on Earth and talking about K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away. K2-18b recently made headlines after researchers claimed to observe possible “signs of life” in the ...