This shift is grounded in how scientists interpret the atmospheric data of distant planets, especially chemical markers like ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Earlier this month, I learned that potential signs of life were discovered on an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is 120 light-years away from Earth. This is a discovery that could reshape our ...

It’s one of humanity’s oldest questions. Are we alone? Is there life elsewhere in our galaxy or the universe? Scientists last week made a stunning announcement that they had found the “strongest ...

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 ...

Are Hycean exoplanets, which are a combination of hydrogen and a potential liquid water ocean, less common than previously hypothesized? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported that planet K2-18b could be a marine ...