The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope captured NGC 1514’s glowing rings and dust clumps, revealing oxygen but no carbon clues to a dying star ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

Scientists have detected potential evidence of life on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet. A Cambridge team using NASA’s James Webb ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected evidence of life on a planet trillions of miles from Earth, according ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

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