If humanity was forced to move off Earth and travel (somehow) to a habitable planet elsewhere, astronomers may have found the first place "we" could go.
Bring flippers (or a big boat).
Water World: Astronomers Discover an Extrasolar World That May Be Entirely Covered in a Deep Ocean
“TOI-1452 b is one of the best candidates for an ocean planet that we have found to date,” said Cadieux. “Its radius and mass suggest a much lower density than what one would expect for a planet that is basically made up of metal and rock, like Earth.”
The University of Toronto’s Mykhaylo Plotnykov and Diana Valencia are specialists in exoplanet interior modeling. Their analysis of TOI-1452 b shows that water may make up as much as 30% of its mass, a proportion similar to that of some natural satellites in our Solar System, such as Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto, and Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus."
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