Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien ...

The strongest yet indication of extraterrestrial life – in the form of organically produced chemicals, not an alien civilization – may have been found on a giant exoplanet 124 light-years from ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

But the team was only 68% sure that Webb's findings weren't a fluke, and before assuming that they'd found surefire signs of extraterrestrial life, they wanted to double check the telescope's ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

Learn why a lichen found in the Mojave Desert has become key evidence in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Scientists may have detected new signs of extraterrestrial life April 17, 2025 - 6:27 pm Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet ...

New claim of ‘alien’ life leaves space world in a bind. ... Evidence has begun to emerge that dimethyl sulphide can be produced by non-biological means.

Space Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet. On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living ...

The new work looked at the planet K2-18 b, which is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, 2.6 times as large and sits about 124 light years away. It was already an exciting place to look, since it orbits ...

K2-18b may be a promising candidate for identifying extraterrestrial life. But excitement about biosignatures such as DMS disguises deeper, theoretical problems that also need to be resolved.