When we imagine the search for life on Mars, we often picture high-tech rovers scanning dusty landscapes or orbiters ...

Explore the groundbreaking discovery of extraterrestrial life signs on exoplanet K2-18 b with chemical evidence from NASA.

Their latest study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, reports the detection of either dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...

After the ballots are pierced, they are burned in a cylindrical stove at the end of the voting session. Black smoke from the ...

This is the closed-door meeting of the cardinal electors to choose the new pope in the Sistine Chapel. Its name, literally ...

Interested in finding a better way to develop drugs to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Northeastern researcher ...

Other methods, like regular mass spectrometry, can detect hundreds of molecules but don't work on intact samples, so researchers can't see how the biomolecules are oriented. One promising ...

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that uses an instrument called a mass spectrometer to measure the mass-to-charge ratios of molecular ions. Molecules fragment within the mass ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...