The James Webb Space Telescope will help scientists look for signs on life on other planets. Adapted from NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt, T. Pyle (IPAC) In June, astronomers reported a disappointing ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have provided scientists with the strongest evidence yet of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system. In a new study published Wednesday in The ...

It’s one of humanity’s oldest questions. Are we alone? Is there life elsewhere in our galaxy or the universe? Scientists last week made a stunning announcement that they had found the “strongest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Science news this week includes the hints of life on a distant planet and a "useless" female ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party some 120 light-years away. Reading time 5 minutes Last week, researchers ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien lifeforms ...

The prospect of life existing beyond Earth has captured the imagination of people for centuries. Aliens serve as the basis for some of the most entertaining radio shows, television programs, and ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...