Even if the planet does have DMS, it is not a guarantee of life — the chemical has been detected on a lifeless asteroid.

Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

Harris Dickinson's 'Urchin' and Momoko Seto’s animated 'Dandelion's Odyssey' also earned recognition from the critics' ...

The new observations were carried out using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which captured signals in the mid-infrared ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting backward ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable planetary system that challenges long-held assumptions about where planets can ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...