K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

The groundbreaking research is being described as the "strongest evidence yet" of life in outer space. The study was ...

Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news that signs of a gas, which on Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...