JWST lacks the precision to detect life on exoplanets, and this new telescope aims to change that.

Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters directly. A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon ...

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Pulverised technology from collapsed alien civilisations may lie scattered across the solar system, including on the Moon, a new study suggests. The likelihood of advanced aliens living at the same ...

Apparent signs of alien life on the exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise, according to a new analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope. On 17 April, Nikku Madhusudhan at the ...