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Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines.

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Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

In 2023, Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues first announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on K2-18b, an exoplanet nearly nine times more massive than ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

Astronomers have been poring over last week's claim of the detection of life-associated gases in the atmosphere of a distant ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.