An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

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

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

NASA has discovered molecules known to come exclusively from life in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, suggesting the ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough coronagraph that could finally allow us to see Earth-like exoplanets hidden in the ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

The team lead by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of University of Cambridge discovered chemical footprints of molecules ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan's team has detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on exoplanet K2-18b, a potential biosignature produced by ...