The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of 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 ...

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 ...

Scientists say they’ve found evidence of alien life. The truth is more complicated. There’s doubt over the significance of the planetary find, writes Campbell Rider ...

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.

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 ...

news National. Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet Discovery has generated excitement among researchers over possibility of life beyond our solar system.

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating a faraway world could be home to alien life.. A team at the University of Cambridge ...

But so far, no solid evidence of life has ever been found beyond the Earth. A paper published in April 2025 claimed to detect a signature of life in the atmosphere of the planet K2-18 b .

While no conclusive evidence has yet been found of extraterrestrial life, scientists are seeking out worlds like K2-18b with hydrogen-rich atmospheres that astronomers believe to be covered in ...

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