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

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

When astronomers search for evidence of life ... Earth, Pettit is also known for his stunning photography of the cosmos. To celebrate his homecoming, here are some of Pettit’s awe-inspiring ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible ... or DMDS. On Earth, both molecules are only produced by microbial life, typically marine ...

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

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

The study, which was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, said researchers instead discovered a possible biosignature or an indicator of a biological process on a planet that orbits a star ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

This potential evidence of microbial life is on a planet named K2-18 b, which is about 8.6 times as massive as Earth and has a diameter about 2.6 times as large as our planet.