The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet. But they caution much more work is needed to confirm their findings.

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

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Astronomers at the University of Cambridge believe that they have found credible evidence of alien life on another planet. A new report says they have found 'the first hints of an ...

The tantalizing hints of a far planet ‘teeming’ with extraterrestrial life is some 120 light-years away from Earth, ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

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

The pair of brown dwarfs, known as 2M1510, were detected in 2018 by Professor Amaury Triaud and others with the Search for ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe ...