The search for life out there begins right here, in some of Earth’s most extreme environments. In the fourth episode of our documentary series Our Alien Earth, NASA astrobiologists explore beneath the volcanoes of Hawai’i to advance our search for life on other worlds. Watch today: https://go.nasa.gov/4oWEg6D | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

👉🛰️ NASA has confirmed the discovery of a distant exoplanet about 100 light-years from Earth that appears to be covered almost entirely by water. Unlike our planet, this world likely has little or no land at all. Its global ocean could create conditions where life might exist in forms very different from anything we know. For scientists, the discovery is both exciting and humbling, highlighting how diverse planets in the universe can be. Studies suggest that water-rich planets can maintain rel