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 ...

Last week, a team of scientists claimed to have discovered possible signs of life on a nearby planet. in fact, their evidence ...

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

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

An ocean planet could be “teeming with alien life,” a top scientist has claimed. Signs of life have been found on planet ...

Astronomers have detected unusual molecules, dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), in the atmosphere of ...

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

The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

Webb also revealed that the star did not swell to swallow the planet, but the planet’s orbit actually slowly decayed over time. NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) As planetary demises go ...

A new baby is a grand and optimistic investment in the future. After all, children are our future, as Whitney Houston once sang. Whether influenced by the vastness of space, the imaginative worlds ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...