Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Astronomers are adopting new strategies in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests using Earth’s shadow to detect alien ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what they describe as the most compelling evidence so far for biological activity beyond Earth. The findings focus on the ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...