A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of

This is about as close as we can get for carbon-based life habitable planet. 2.6 times the radius of Earth and mostly ocean, what sort of marine lives swim in there? Give me chills if they exist.

  • @nexusband
    10•9 months ago

    Life on K2-18 b is still pretty unlikely. Or at least what we would call life… There have been signs of Dimethyl sulfide, which would be one of those bio markers.

    • Orbituary
      6•9 months ago

      I would say it’s neither likely or unlikely. It’d simply unconfirmed. We don’t have a solid baseline for establishing how widespread life is.

      What we do know is that carbon and long-chain carbon molecules like methane are indicators. Nothing more.