What do you think of when it comes to extra terrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers are searching for ...

Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien lifeforms remains frustratingly ... states that atmospheric analysis of the planet K2-18b revealed the presence of two gases that ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating a faraway world could be home to alien life ... of K2-18 b, a planet orbiting ...

detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes. The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl ...

More news about our planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. The exoplanet known as K2-18b was first discovered in 2015 more than 120 light-years from Earth during NASA's planet ...

"These are the first hints we are seeing of an alien world that is possibly inhabited ... the purportedly tell-tale gases that appear to be in this planet's atmosphere are either dimethyl ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is inspired by one that actually exists. In the new film Ash ...

The Alien franchise, dormant since 2017’s Alien Covenant, is more alive than ever. We got the new feature film Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Álvarez, and now there is an Alien TV series ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find this type of emission with a certainty of 99.7% from a planet called K2-18b, 124 light ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find this type of emission with a certainty of 99.7% from a planet called K2-18b, 124 light ...

The light coming out of the star can be observed directly and a small amount of it will also pass through the atmosphere of the planet ... results in a gentle mist forming on the table.