A Breakthrough in the Search for Alien Life: The Story of K2-18b
Discovered in 2015 by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, K2-18b is a distant world orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light-years away. This exoplanet is 2.6 times wider and 8.6 times more massive than Earth, with a 33-day orbit (that is just over one month for us!) snugly within its star’s habitable zone—the region where temperatures could allow liquid water! Early Hubble … Read moreA Breakthrough in the Search for Alien Life: The Story of K2-18b