September
12
/ 2019
For the first time ever, astronomers have identified water trapped in the atmosphere of a remote planet orbiting a distant star. When Gillian Anderson played Dana Scully she famously said, “The truth is out there” and who would have believed that astronomers around the world are now opening new folders on their desk tops rightfully titled - X-Files. Just over twice the size of our planet and located an unimaginable 111 light years (650 million miles) from Earth, exoplanet “ K2-18b” is the best chance we have ever had of finding extraterrestrial life. And we will know if its inhabited within the next decade with the advent of a new generation of space telescopes capable of telling us if its
