Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

A recent study of an exoplanet 120 light-years away revealed it has elements that are believed to be essential in the formation of life. NASA studied K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as ...

Amid a new wave of interest in the possibility of life on other worlds, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and NASA embarked on a new effort to identify planets with the basic compounds for life ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The exoplanet LHS 3844b (left) is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits the star LHS 3844 (right). Discovered in 2018 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, LHS 3844b is located 48.6 ...

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