"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient ...

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

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

These conditions are favourable to life. So does this mean K2-18b’s oceans are crawling with extraterrestrial microbes? Some ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

Many scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before an alien ecosystem is discovered, but experts are skeptical about a ...

When both traditional astronomy and Christian theology placed the Earth at the centre of the cosmos, few imagined the stars ...

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Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's ...

That star-orbiting exoplanet, K2-18b, has long fascinated astronomers who consider it among the best ocean worlds to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. But one independent researcher is ...