The James Webb Space Telescope's possible detection of biological chemicals on the exoplanet K2-18b may just have been ...

Conversely, for larger, hotter stars, the habitable zone is further out ... its properties and make some guesses about what planets are potentially orbiting in that system." ...

Instead of using chlorophyll, the green organelle that most plants have today used for photosynthesis, purple bacteria uses ...

A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, ...

Reports of life signs detected in the atmosphere of the potential ocean world K2-18 b may have been premature.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered carbon-based molecules on a viable exoplanet. That means there should be an ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is poised to investigate seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 star, 40 light ...

The results suggest that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient, habitable lake on ...

Geologists uncovered ancient rocks in Greenland that bear the oldest remnants of Earth’s early magnetic field. The results ...

The discovery of Kepler-442b highlights the ongoing search for Earth 2.0. Scientists are constantly refining their methods ...