{"id":96100,"date":"2019-09-11T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/water-found-in-atmosphere-of-planet-beyond-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2019-09-11T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:02:50","slug":"water-found-in-atmosphere-of-planet-beyond-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/water-found-in-atmosphere-of-planet-beyond-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Water found in atmosphere of planet beyond our solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-found-in-atmosphere-of-planet-beyond-our-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2014 Scientists for the first time have detected water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star, evidence that a key ingredient for life exists beyond our solar system, according to a study published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Water vapor was found in the atmosphere of K2-18b, one of hundreds of \u201csuper-Earths\u201d \u2014 worlds ranging in size between Earth and Neptune \u2014 documented in a growing new field of astronomy devoted to the exploration of so-called exoplanets elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 exoplanets of all types and sizes have been detected overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2014 Scientists for the first time have detected water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star, evidence that a key ingredient for life exists beyond our solar system, according to a study published on Wednesday. Water vapor was found in the atmosphere of K2-18b, one of hundreds of \u201csuper-Earths\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}