Scientists announce detection of compounds on an extrasolar planet that on Earth only produce living organisms, but other ...

Scientists are currently planning two major space missions to search for life in space: NASA's Project HWO and Project LIFE, ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

Find out what scientists have discovered about K2-18b and why it’s one of the most promising exoplanets in the search for ...

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

To reach this conclusion, the team studied the orbits of thousands of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets." The team, consisting of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising ‘hints’ of potential life on a planet beyond our ...