At 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of our planet, it is a mysterious and alien world—one that might not even be habitable. Madhusudhan points out that the analysis reporting no ...

Reuters/File WASHINGTON: The young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine in a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars".

Washington, DC (CNN) — The Supreme Court early Saturday morning paused the deportation of immigrants potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act, freezing action in a fast-developing case ...

"Through this amazing instrument, we can detect slight changes in the light coming from a very, very distant planet. It's all over all right. On May 14, just one day before news broke that Ben ...

However, K2-18b is rare among them in that it is located in the habitable zone. The alien planet has a diameter 2.6 times larger than Earth’s and is 8.6 times as massive. That puts K2-18b in the ...

Scientists have found the best ever hint of alien life on another planet. But they aren’t getting entirely excited just yet. In what might eventually be hailed as the first fingerprint of ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet of potential life on an alien planet, identifying chemical gases in the atmosphere of K2-18 b that ...

not an alien civilization – may have been found on a giant exoplanet 124 light-years from Earth, researchers announced in a new study on April 17. Atmospheric analysis of K2-18b, a planet a bit ...

“These are the first hints we are seeing of an alien world that is possibly inhabited ... the purportedly tell-tale gases that appear to be in this planet’s atmosphere are either dimethyl ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...