The saga surrounding Neptune-size "super-Earth" exoplanet K2-18 b just got a whole lot more interesting. For a quick recap, this is the world a team of scientists recently suggested could host life — ...

"Our findings underscore the importance of considering diverse habitable environments in the search for life elsewhere," said Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, who is an astronomer at the University of Cambridge ...

“This is sooooooooo exciting. Could go away with more data but it’s exactly the kind of path we’d expect on the road [to] finding life,” wrote astrophysicist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exoplanet K2-18b The tantalising prospect that we might not be alone in the universe is a step closer to reality thanks to the ...

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Scientists have discovered water vapour in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 110 light years from Earth, raising hopes of a breakthrough in the search for other habitable worlds. The experts, from ...

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What can sub-Neptune exoplanets teach astronomers about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

K2-18 b with SETI Institute logo mark. Illustration credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Madhusudhan et al. just reported ~3 sigma detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide ...