"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines.

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

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The trendiest planet in the universe right now is K2-18b, a potentially habitable world swirling around a small, red star in ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

And last month, scientists said that they discovered the strongest indication yet of life on a planet 120 light-years away.

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

The signal from the planet’s atmosphere has reached what scientists call “three-sigma” certainty, meaning there’s about a 0.3% chance the detection happened by accident. For scientists to confidently ...