At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

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

This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. In the late 1980s, Stephanie Garber ...

In honour of Prevention of Violence Against Women Week in British Columbia (April 21-27), the Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society has launched a community-wide awareness and fundraising campaign ...

Since it was discovered in 2015, K2-18b, which orbits a red dwarf star more than 120 light-years from Earth, has captivated scientists who have considered it among the best potential life ...

The Milky Way is around 10 billion years old and is home to more than 100 billion stars. This suggests there is likely a mind-boggling number of potentially habitable planets in our home galaxy alone.

The planet is located within the habitable zone of its star, meaning that the world is at just the right temperature and distance from the star to host liquid water on its surface. “Earlier ...

K2-18b is a sub-Neptune exoplanet that is located within its star, the red dwarf K2-18. Even though the presence of ... carried out to explore Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017, gave ...

When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world ...

Exoplanet simply means it is a planet outside of our Solar System. It orbits the red dwarf star K2-18 and is located in the Leo constellation. Dr Nikku Madhusudhan is an Associate Professor in ...

The planet is situated in the habitable zone of a cool, red dwarf star and is believed to be covered in a vast ocean. In 2023, Varsity reported on the team’s discovery of high concentrations of ...