The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away from ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope, which was trained on the exoplanet K2-18b - Amanda Smith An ocean ...

This video examines whether alien plants could actually be blue and what physics says about plant color beyond Earth. It ...

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 ...

A University of Cambridge-led team of astronomers made worldwide headlines last night with claims that they had found the “strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the Solar System”. The ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of large quantities of biosignature chemicals — only known to be made by life on Earth — on an exoplanet more than 100 light-years away. It could be the most ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...