Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

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

“It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.” The study was published Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Other researchers called it an ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible ... an exoplanet in the habitable zone. Those results were consistent with predictions for a 'Hycean' planet: a habitable ...

While more research is needed, “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet,” said Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge ...

"If we can detect these molecules on habitable planets, this is the first time we've been able to do that as a species…it's mind-boggling that this is possible." He added: "Decades from now ...

LONDON (AP) — Astronomers have found possible ... The planet is more than double Earth’s size and more than 8 times more massive. It's in the so-called habitable zone of its star.

“This is a transformational moment in the search for life beyond the solar system, where we have demonstrated that it is possible to detect biosignatures in potentially habitable planets with ...

“It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet ... sense of the new study — to recreate the possible conditions on sub-Neptunes, for instance ...