"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 ...

At 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of our planet, it is a mysterious and alien world—one that might not even be habitable. Madhusudhan points out that the analysis reporting no ...

Whatever the case may be, the events of the ‘79 original ... 1979's Alien. (Credit: 20th Century Studios) Why Do the Heroes Have a Spaceship if They’re Not Allowed to Leave the Planet?

An alien planet has been discovered that may be "teeming with life" as scientists reveal the exact date we will know whether extraterrestrials exist could be "within one to two years". Lead ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

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 ...