WATER WORLDS: Hideouts for Alien Life?

Far beyond Earth, a new type of alien water planet could be specking our galaxy by the billions, like cosmic dew drops

These "Hycean Planets" range up to ten times the mass of the Earth, containing mage-oceans that could stretch down hundreds of kilometers. a wide

Their extreme pressures keep then water liquid across range of temperatures, broadening the zone in which they could

host life. And researchers now believe that these worlds are

extremely common in the universe

Soon we will get our first peek into the atmosphere of a possible Hycean world, K2-18b, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope What secrets will these ocean worlds reveal? ls something out there, swimming freely in an ocean more vast that we can imagine?