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

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

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

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

An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries – and decide when ...

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

A study led by the University of Cambridge has sparked fresh excitement in the search for extraterrestrial life, after ...

A hint of extra-terrestrial (ET) life detected from observations by the James Webb Space Telescope has got the world bubbling with excitement. A study of exopla ...

That star-orbiting exoplanet, K2-18b, has long fascinated astronomers who consider it among the best ocean worlds to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. But one independent researcher is ...