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

Vanessa O'Brien: 26,000 feet or 8,000 meters, they do call the "death zone." The death zone is ... That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours.

Discovered in 2015, its orbit around a cool dwarf star is inside the "Goldilocks zone," like Earth, which means temperatures aren't too hot or too cold to harbor potential life. K2-18b is around 8 ...

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 ...

K2-18b, which orbits a red dwarf star more than 120 light-years from Earth, has for years intrigued astronomers who believe it exists in what they refer to as the "habitable zone" – where ...