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A study led by the University of Cambridge has sparked fresh excitement in the search for extraterrestrial life, after ...

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

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

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

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

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

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.

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...