Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines.

An artist's interpretation of the exoplanet K2-18b. Could the alien world contain a biosphere?. | Credit: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) The trendiest planet in the universe right ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

Astronomers find possible signs of alien life on massive, distance planet K2-18b. The exoplanet K2-18b is 8 times bigger than planet Earth. The claim about alien life involved data from NASA's ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. By Carl Zimmer The search for life beyond Earth has led ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the researchers detected atmospheric clues hinting that microbial organisms could be living on the surface of K2-18b, visible in the ...

The story so far: On April 17, an international research team published a paper in which it reported that the distant exoplanet K2-18b may be habitable. The claim was met with cautious excitement ...