An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

A new study suggests that life may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets once conditions become favorable. By analyzing ...

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

It is one of the questions we have all asked ourselves at some point: when will the world end? Well, a team of several ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

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

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

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

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

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

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 ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.