Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The search for alien life is one of the most captivating scientific quests of our time. With the discovery of thousands of ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope could potentially detect signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds, possibly the most ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method ...

“Unlike an Earth-like planet, where atmospheric noise and telescope limitations make it difficult to detect biosignatures, ...

A study reveals that JWST can detect methyl halides in Hycean planet atmospheres, indicating potential biosignatures and ...

What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...

Now, a group of researchers is proposing a novel approach using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a collaboration ...