"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

K2-18b recently made headlines after researchers claimed to observe possible “signs of life” in the planet's atmosphere. So, ...

A team of researchers has recently claimed they have discovered a gas called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of K2-18b, a planet orbiting a distant star.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the strongest evidence yet of life off Earth.

"It's almost certainly not life," Tessa Fisher, an astrobiologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the research, told Nature.com. So what did JWST actually find on K2-18b, and how ...

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

Astronomers detected a possible signature of life on a planet orbiting a star 120 light-years away,” it read. Soon after, The ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the "Sagan standard" after science ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Independent analysis raises doubts about alien life on exoplanet K2-18b Weak sulfur gas signals found in K2-18b data earlier ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines.