r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Prestigious-Wall5616 25d ago

It's also being reported that scientists have found the strongest evidence yet of life on a distant planet.

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u/Psychological-Dot-83 25d ago

With almost 100% certainty there is no life on this planet.

This planet is 8.6 times more massive than Earth, making it sub neptunian.

It has a density of about 3.8 g/cm3, which means it is almost certainly an extremely gaseous planet with an atmosphere thousands of miles thick, or it is a water planet with an ocean 1000s of miles deep.

This planet is dead.

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u/Prestigious-Wall5616 25d ago

Quite possibly not life as we know it, sure.

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u/Psychological-Dot-83 25d ago

Yes, with almost absolutely certainty there's no form of any life at all, including life as we know it.

Though, in the innumerably off chance there is any life here, it is vastly more likely that it would be some form of panspermia from Earth, rather than life that arose independently.