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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Astrobiologists investigating extraterrestrial life first became excited about K2-18b in 2023 when data from the new James Webb Space Telescope showed methane and carbon dioxide were present ...