With the most advanced craft available at the moment, the time needed to reach this planet will be 194,000 years ...

Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light ... and is so far away from Earth that a spaceship would ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

Scientists say they may have found signs of life on exoplanet K2-18b, which is located more than 100 light-years away from ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

In a nod to the classic fairy tale, astronomers even refer to planets with these conditions as "Goldilocks" zones because conditions have to be just right – neither too hot nor too cold – for ...

When it happens, put down your phone, look up from your work, walk away from your computer ... Do the maths: so far, it looks like planets orbit every fifth star. There are 200 billion stars ...

There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet ... too cold to have liquid water, considered the most important ingredient for life. Telescopes observe such far ...

That zone is a sort of sweet spot for potential life — a distance from a star not too close where heat would evaporate water and not too far ... away, in the constellation Leo. Those earlier ...