The discovery of dimethyl sulfide on K2-18b, a planet 120 light-years away ... K2-18b discovery fuels alien life hopes, but scientists warn contact remains risky Chemical makeup of K2-18b is ...

At 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of our planet, it is a mysterious and alien world—one that might not even be habitable. Madhusudhan points out that the analysis reporting no ...

They used Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope to analyse the chemical composition of the planet’s atmosphere and say they found promising evidence K2-18b could host life. It’s an exciting breakthrough ...

In fact, the life that could be — thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely ... microbial life under the parched landscapes of Mars or the icy crust of the jovian moon ...

"I was shocked by the level of detail they extracted from such a small exoplanet's atmosphere, which provides an incredible opportunity to learn the story of a totally alien planet. With molecules ...

However, K2-18b is rare among them in that it is located in the habitable zone. The alien planet has a diameter 2.6 times larger than Earth’s and is 8.6 times as massive. That puts K2-18b in the ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute who was part of the ...

PARIS: Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet. But given ...

Reuters/File WASHINGTON: The young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine in a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars".

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...

April 20 (Reuters) - A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency ...

His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018. Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in ...