Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints… of an alien world” on a distant planet orbiting ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Did the chemical components necessary to create water on Earth ... Much to their surprise, they found areas rich in hydrogen sulfide just outside areas they suspected would hold the most hydrogen, ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

such as hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen peroxide," Izgu said. "The inorganic chemical we want to detect first reacts with a small receptor molecule, which in turn becomes a binder of a special RNA ...