Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away from ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what they describe as the most compelling evidence so far for biological activity beyond Earth. The findings focus on the ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

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 ...

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

A growing number of studies have cast doubt on earlier claims about signs of life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation, concluding that the available data doesn’t support ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...