JWST lacks the precision to detect life on exoplanets, and this new telescope aims to change that.

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When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.

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For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science's biggest mistakes: claiming a discovery that turns out not to be real. Researchers have built entire ...

The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

October 16, 2024, Mountain View, CA — Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for signs of alien technology in the ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. In a ...

TL;DR: Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected molecules dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulphide in exoplanet K2-18b's atmosphere, which on Earth are produced only by life. While ...