With data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth within the habitable zone by University College London (UCL) researchers in a world first. K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or exoplanet, known to have both water and temperatures that could support life.
The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1916/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
11 September 2019
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