An ocean world that's teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

As WorldAtlas notes, “Humanity has physically explored more of our oceans than space. However, the journey of discovery in both fields has barely begun, promising endless opportunities for exploration ...

Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare excitement – tinged ...

Cambridge University scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet of life on another planet 124 light years away. The planet is called K2-18b and was spotted with the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers are nearing a statistically significant finding that could confirm the potential signs of life detected on the distant exoplanet K2-18b are no accident. The team of astronomers, led by the ...

Exoplanet K2-18b has been talked about quite a bit on science news segments around the world. News programs, as they often do, take a bit of new science and sensationalize it to try to get as many ...

A team of astronomers have found what they claim are the most promising—but also tentative—signs of possible life on a distant planet. The research, which was published in the The Astrophysical ...

With basic science and imagination, we can hypothesize what life might develop on other planets James Trefil and Michael Summers You are in a long, dark tunnel walled with solid ice. The only light ...

Plants go through cycles based on the time of the year. It can be fun to watch a tree, for example, move from having bare branches in the winter to buds in the spring, full leaves in the summer, ...