A study led by the University of Cambridge has sparked fresh excitement in the search for extraterrestrial life, after ...

Calhoun served as the main developer on the software used to run the simulations that detect signals seen in the atmosphere ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

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

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Researchers are testing a new type of cattle feed that could help dairy cows release less methane gas from burps and flatulence and use nutrients more efficiently. Because methane traps heat in the ...

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

Students in the Gordon Group are testing the DM-Chem model by looking at other foggy regions of the world, such as over the Atlantic Ocean. Natalie Koch/ Photo Editor The city of Delhi, India is ...

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

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

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

NASA's ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.