A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party ...

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

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

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

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA ... Tools like these significantly improve detection and observation of environmental phenomena that directly affect public safety ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect ...

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In 1955, the site was renamed to the Nevada Test Site. Atmospheric testing on the site began in 1951, and ended in 1962. Atmospheric tests were banned in August 1963, and tests were moved underground.