"Decades from now, we may look back at this point in time and recognise it was when the living universe came within reach," ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

British-US team detects 'biosignatures' on planet K2-18b, 124 lightyears from Earth, says it is 'closest we have come to ...

Astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, have found chemical fingerprints on the exoplanet K2-18b, found 120 ...

Researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet’s atmosphere long considered to be biosignatures indicating ...

Astronomers have discovered the most compelling sign of alien life ever detected outside our Solar System, with the new study ...

Scientists have detected chemical signatures on a planet 124 light-years away that suggest the presence of life for the first time beyond our solar system.

Astronomers announced on Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...

On Earth, the chemicals dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide are produced only by life, mostly microscopic marine algae called phytoplankton. The researchers emphasised caution ...