Astronomers Find Atmospheric Gas
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Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet – an astronomer explains why many are still skeptical
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K2-18b is the first planet in the 18th planetary system found by the extended NASA Kepler mission, K2 .
It is about eight times more massive than Earth and has a volume that’s about 18 times larger.
Astronomers think it could either be a mini- Neptune or a rocky planet with no water but a massive hydrogen atmosphere, called a gas dwarf.
In a hycean world, water would be trapped in the deeper and warmer atmosphere.
New data show a stronger but still relatively weak signal that the team attributes to DMS or a very similar molecule.
Daniel Apai : Is life out there? Does this mean that scientists have found life on another world? Perhaps but we still cannot be sure. The new measurements may lead researchers toward a historic discovery, he says.