Exoplanet K2-18b is garnering a lot of attention. James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopy shows it has carbon and methane in…
When scientists detected phosphine in Venus' atmosphere in 2020, it triggered renewed, animated discussions about Venus and its potential habitability.…
Enceladus' status as a target in the search for life keeps rising. We've known for years that plumes erupting from…
In the quest to understand how and where life might arise in the galaxy, astronomers search for its building blocks.…
Our search for life beyond Earth is still in its infancy. We're focused on Mars and, to a lesser extent,…
If the Universe has adolescent galaxies, they're the ones that formed about 2 to 3 billion years after the Big…
If there's one chemical that causes excitement in the search for biosignatures on other worlds, it's methane. It's not a…
Astrophysicists working with the JWST have found a surprising amount of metal in a galaxy only 350 million years after…
Humans on Mars will need oxygen, and Mars' atmosphere is pretty anemic when it comes to the life-sustaining element. NASA's…
We're inching closer and closer to reliably detecting biosignatures on distant planets. Much of the focus is on determining which…