From Lauren Sánchez's beginnings as a local news station anchor in Los Angeles to her aviation career and her best-selling ...

The agency said that key components of the ambitious project, including the Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket, the ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

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The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, the molecule comes from microbes and phytoplankton.

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, DMS ...

And that connection between our deep oceans and deep space? Well, of course, all astronauts work under deep water as part of ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...

Astronomers may have found the strongest hint of life beyond Earth thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...