The planet’s name is K2-18b, meaning it is the first planet in the 18th planetary system found by the extended NASA Kepler mission, K2. Astronomers assign the “b” label to the first planet i ...

Amid this spotlight, some of them like vitamin K2 remain in the shadows. Vitamin K2 is a very important nutrient and helps in keeping everything in our body running fine just as any other known ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge, led by Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, announced that K2-18b, a planet orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light-years away, has all the characteristics exhibited by life.

A team of researchers at Cambridge University might be edging closer to an answer. Their latest findings suggest that a distant planet, K2-18b, could possibly host life. But the keyword here is ...

His research on a distant planet named K2-18b, located 124 light-years away, has sparked global curiosity. Professor Nikku Madhusudhan is a renowned astrophysicist and expert in exoplanetary ...

Its name is K2-18b, a mysterious world 124 light-years away in Leo, which currently hogs the spotlight down here below. Some scientists think it could be a steamy ocean planet with the right vibes ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team detected chemical fingerprints within the atmosphere of K2-18b that suggest the presence of dimethyl sulfide or DMS, and potentially dimethyl ...

Madhusudhan et al. just reported ~3 sigma detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in the atmosphere of K2-18 b in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The claim is intriguing, ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they identified the molecules dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b, which orbits ...