The Planet of the Apes franchise has offered several versions of Earth's future, and the sci-fi epic has retconned its own ...

A team of scientists have discovered a molecule on a far-away planet that may indicate that it holds some form of life. The massive world, known as K2-18b, orbits another star roughly 120 light ...

Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world, or lead to an Earth-like twin thought of as Planet B? Or perhaps a technosignature ...

The discovery of dimethyl sulfide on K2-18b, a planet 120 light-years away, has ignited hopes for extraterrestrial life due to its potential for liquid water. While scientists are excited about ...

In this photo released by Japanese Embassy to Cambodia, A Japanese warship docks at a naval base's pier during a four-day visit at the Ream Naval Base in Sihanoukville, southwestern of Phnom Penh ...

(Image credit: Apperson, K.D. et al., 2017) It's a tale as old as time: Doctors and scientists discover a new part of the human body, declare it "useless" and then forget about it for more than a ...

Distant world might just be our best bet yet for finding extraterrestrial life Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond ...

Scientists have found the best ever hint of alien life on another planet. But they aren’t getting entirely excited just yet. In what might eventually be hailed as the first fingerprint of ...

But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our planet. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team detected chemical ...

This raises the intriguing possibility that the planet could be home to microbial life, although the scientists stress that they are not declaring the discovery of actual living organisms. Instead, ...

“Astronomers detected a possible signature of life on a planet orbiting a star 120 light-years away,” it read. Soon after, The Washington Post followed up with a notification of its ...