NASA's next great observatory could spot oceans on distant worlds

We've found more than 5,500 exoplanets so far. Dozens of them are in the habitable zones of their parent stars, where, at least in theory, they could host an ocean. But we've never definitively found a liquid ocean on another planet.

The top 3

  1. Top 3 Most Potentially Habitable Exoplanets Discovered: These worlds represent the strongest candidates for hosting liquid water and life based on current astrobiological data.
  2. Top 3 Most Powerful Space Observatories in History: Comparing the capabilities of humanity's greatest tools for peering into the deep cosmos.
  3. 3 Hardest Challenges in Detecting Alien Oceans: The technical hurdles that make finding water on distant worlds the ultimate scientific 'needle in a haystack' quest.

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