A Wet, Warm World

We’ve just discovered the first exoplanet within the habitable zone of its star with confirmed water in its atmosphere: K2–18b

A. S. Deller
Nov 4 · 3 min read

If water is a requirement for life, have we just found our first best candidate for extraterrestrial habitation?

K2–18b is the second world out from its sun, a red dwarf star, in a solar system 111…

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A. S. Deller

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