"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

An artist's interpretation of the exoplanet K2-18b. Could the alien world contain a biosphere?. | Credit: A. Smith, N.

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

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

A hint of extra-terrestrial (ET) life detected from observations by the James Webb Space Telescope has got the world bubbling with excitement. A study of exopla ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

A study led by the University of Cambridge has sparked fresh excitement in the search for extraterrestrial life, after ...