"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

An artist's interpretation of the exoplanet K2-18b. Could the alien world contain a biosphere?. | Credit: A. Smith, N.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's ...