Using the JWST (that's the James Webb Space Telescope), planetary astronomers might have found a planet bigger than Earth that might have surface water.
Lots of big "ifs" involved, but if we need a destination and can build ships to cross the void (see "generation ships" in your Google searching), maybe this would be a place to go.
James Webb Space Telescope suggests this exoplanet is our 'best bet' at finding an alien oceanLHS 1140 b could make a great beach resort, with a possible ocean temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
"This is the first time we have ever seen a hint of an atmosphere on a habitable zone rocky or ice-rich exoplanet," Ryan MacDonald, a NASA Sagan Fellow in the University of Michigan's Department of Astronomy, who aided the analysis of LHS 1140 b's atmosphere, said in the statement. Per Macdonald, the team might have even found evidence of "air" on it. "
More research must be done.
But it's a start.
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