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

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

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

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

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

“Unless we see E.T. waving at us, it’s not going to be a smoking gun,” said Christopher Glein, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Astronomers ...

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

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

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