{"id":778051,"date":"2024-02-29T02:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=778051"},"modified":"2024-02-29T02:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:11:01","slug":"k2-18b-habitable-ocean-world-may-actually-be-inhospitable-gas-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=778051","title":{"rendered":"K2-18b: Habitable ocean world may actually be inhospitable gas planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">An artist\u2019s impression showing K2-18b as a potentially habitable ocean world may not be correct<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A distant planet once touted as a potential location to look for alien life is actually most likely to be inhospitable, according to astronomers who have found it probably lacks a solid surface.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, astronomers discovered a planet 110 light years away called K2-18b, which later analysis estimated to be a super-Earth or mini-Neptune about eight times the mass of our world.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2419474-habitable-ocean-world-k2-18b-may-actually-be-inhospitable-gas-planet\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s impression showing K2-18b as a potentially habitable ocean world may not be correct NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI) A distant planet once touted as a potential location&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/778052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}