Alien world could be a home for life, scientists say – The Independent, Independent
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Alien world could be a home for life, scientists say – The Independent, Independent
Scientists have found that a planet more than twice as big as Earth could be habitable, opening up new possibilities in the search for life on other planets.
The new discovery suggests that alien life could flourish on worlds bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, just like the exoplanet K2 – (b .
Researchers looked at the mass, radius and atmospheric data of the distant exoplanet and used models to find that it is possible the planet could have liquid water, in habitable conditions, underneath the hydrogen-rich atmosphere on its surface.
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The exoplanet is found lightyears away, relatively close by in terms. of exoplanets. It is also relatively similar to Earth: with a radius 2.6 times as big as our planet’s and a mass 8.6 times Earth’s.
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