Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...

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In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints ... via REUTERS Mans Holmberg, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute, participated in the study ...

López-Morales is the associate director of the Space Telescope Science Institute ... its presence is not necessarily a bankable sign of life. Last year, the chemical was observed in the ...

"That's how science has to work." While he is not yet claiming a definitive discovery, Madhusudhan says that with powerful tools like JWST and future planned telescopes, humanity is taking new ...