New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

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"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.