Tag: inhabited

K2–18b: an inhabited ocean world? Don’t bet on it

This planet, K2–18b, was indeed observed by the JWST, and did have a fantastic spectrum taken of its atmosphere, revealing many fascinating details about it. However, there is no evidence that K2–18b is a Hycean world at all; no water was detected at all. There’s only dubio...

Life on the World’s Most Remote Inhabited Island

Tristan da Cunha is a small island far away in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,500 kilometers west of Cape Town. It is one of the most remote places where people live in the world. To get there, you have to take a boat through very rough waters, and the trip takes about three weeks from Cape Town. The i...