Laurin said as he watches the meteor shower this Earth Day, he will reflect on astronomers’ recent discovery of a possible signature of life on another planet 127 light years away. He asked, “How long ...

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate of our planet’s dinosaurs ... t a comet and didn’t come from anywhere near ...

At best, it’s a detection of a potential “plankton planet.” An exoplanet about 2.6 times the size of Earth, K2-18b, orbits a red dwarf star in the so-called habitable zone — where liquid ...

Scientists believe that there's a planet like the desert planet Tatooine from 'Star Wars' that orbits a pair of failed stars. A new planet like Star Wars' Tatooine detected outside of our solar ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered the strongest signs yet of possible life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. The astronomers detected the chemical fingerprints of gases in the ...

The planet is orbiting a red dwarf star in what is known as the 'habitable zone' – considered the most promising location to find life-supporting planets. K2-18b is 2.6 times larger and 8.6 ...

Scientists have hailed what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system on a planet about 124 light years from Earth. Researchers using the James Webb Space ...

Scientists have discovered early signs that a distant planet in space called K2-18b could have some life. The promising finding was made by the Cambridge University team studying the atmosphere ...

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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 ...

While an unknown chemical process may be the source of these molecules in K2-18b's atmosphere, the results are the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system.

In the meantime, here's what to know about K2-18b and whether the planet could actually contain life. The planet known as K2-18b is a super Earth exoplanet that is about 124 light years away from ...