Scientists Discovered an Exoplanet That Could Host Alien Life

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's the world you'd want to visit. K2-18b isn't exactly like Earth. It's more like a Super-Earth. Yeah, it's 2.6 times larger and almost nine times more massive than our planet.
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[@rehman3494]

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Ok but TikTok has some of the funniest videos

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[@Jerharris90]

Given the grammar used, and the fact that you capitalized 'toktokers,' it indicates that we would not want you either.

[@UdayAbhayPethe]

Being 120 light years away.. and possibility.. it means we are seeing only the past .

[@pei-enhuang4858]

That's so true! The planet is so far that it took a long time for light to reach earth from that exoplanet

[@retweaksatapathy106]

120 years in the past is not a very long time in Interstellar measurements.

[@Akispark]

That is true for the entirety of the nightsky you're looking at. Exoplanets millions of light years away that for our eyes look like they're dead are merely ancient light, a figment of the past. If we were to see them as they are right now they may already have civilized life on them.

[@Centauri27]

Love your thought-provoking videos. The production is really good--so cinematic!

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China getting a real bang out of their personal lives!

[@simpayshenaides]

Imagining after hopping on this new Planet, We all start from scratch how everything we live and we eat there. Specially new cell and species

[@aronmui]

Dr stone has a similar kind of concept

[@reubenpunnoose5356]

You put videos which are very interesting and knowledge giving things. Thankyou

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I have always loved what if videos 😊

[@cup774]

Alien: are we at the wrong earth? Alien: idk there should be humans by now

[@lil_yung_t]

I believe aliens are real but they're in a different universe. So I think it will be quite impossible for scientists to actually know where alien species are actually located

[@tiglishnobody8750]

Uh that just multiverse and different universe are bit different from other

[@user-nn4sp1vw3s]

Yes sure they wear fluffy pink panther in middle of Rome Italy..name Otto Italy number 🎱👁️ there is no another planet... unfortunately....is sad how many false illusion...and non scientific intelligence are pretending Scientists... monkey

[@ilyasayusuf5447]

Alien doesn't have to be intelligent life. K2-18B show data of DMS, meaning there is microorganisms there 🤷‍♂️

[@newisland3958]

I like all your videos it's the best I've seen ever!!

[@TheBreezus]

We need to work on our propulsion system designs. 1.3 Million years to only go 120 light years isnt going to cut it.

[@cashie5053]

a lot of people fixate on other planets. They always say something along the lines of “oh, if earth ever gets too bad, we’ll just abandon it and find a new planet.” I completely disagree. Earth is our mother. Earth is our home. I can’t just leave it. I would rather die than get in a ship and fly to another planet. if the earth is about to die, i’ll die too. At least, it’s the price to pay for all of us consecutively killing it. love you earth 🩷

[@chance1774]

i already disagree with that thumbnail, it won’t be better than earth! that planet wouldn’t have all of our amazing plant and wildlife. nice to know it’s there but i’ll always be in favor of preserving the one we’re on. 💙

[@slimeward8504]

I agree with you lol

[@controlman7490]

Yea, but eventually we'll have to either leave Earth or die with Earth. In a billion years the Sun's luminosity will increase and all the water on homeworld will boil away and all life will be extinguished. Even if humans do move to another planet at some point that world will also die. It's an inevitable process. Planets are born and eventually their parent stars will kill them. Personally, I think that humans should at least attempt to move to another planet just to see if we can actually build another home on a different planet, but once that planet's star begins to die we should just accept our fate and die with that world. Constantly moving would get exhausting.

[@Spenceham-km3nv]

hey guys same here of course

[@stanley3895]

​@@SurivalGames4EVERWomp womp

[@chance1774]

@@SurivalGames4EVER what are you talking about? all i’m saying is that we should be preserving and protecting the planet we have instead of treating it as disposable simply because there’s another standing by. there’s no better place out there for us because earth is the only one specifically tailored to us. and as humans, all of the things you listed wouldn’t go away… we’d just be taking them with us anywhere we went. human nature.

[@snowdaniels]

How can you see a planet which is a million years away from ya!😂

[@creepingtod]

If you cannot insult intelligently don't. That planet is more than a million years away, and if you don't know yet how we can see elements and size of exoplanets then you need to listen more and comment less yall

[@snowdaniels]

@@creepingtod c'mon man how in the world can you make your so called telescope which has the capacity to magnify something which is more than a million years away, I mean one light year is about 9 trillion km, that means the exo planet is about 900 trillion km from earth , The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space based telescope and can only magnify about 10 billion light years, we talking about 900 trillion bruh🙃 And this is why I hated science 😩

[@CringerKitty]

So, it's not like we'll ever make it there...ever.

[@retweaksatapathy106]

We can if hibernation could be a possibility in the future.

[@martham6]

@@retweaksatapathy106and create a spaceship that can last that long….

[@user-fj7yk2lf3e]

We can if we manage to become a type 2 civilization

[@CringerKitty]

@@user-fj7yk2lf3e You think that's likely with our current batch of humans? We still have a large chunk of the population that believe the Earth is flat.

[@user-fj7yk2lf3e]

@@CringerKitty true and we do still have a large batch of people who agrue about how many genders there are so yeah your pretty much right

[@christoferburgabustamante274]

Super interesting video..!

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What if Netanyahu died?

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Braindead comment.

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[@OfficialCubey]

eh

[@AKG58Z]

We should set up a team to purely discover what these planets propties.

[@fahimredwan]

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[@DewKeyKnow]

so this is one of the products of that telescope, this is so cool!

[@sasikumar-ktmrider3904]

Superb 👍❤️😍

[@thealextrifier]

Yet the best we can do is send a radio signal 😕

[@marylienx333]

Video idea: WHAT IF WATER WAS A SUPERFLUID?

[@ACE-G0D]

What if we could control every cell in our body

[@Mustang1984]

Well then we could eradicate cancer.

[@TheJattMC]

Can’t accurately predict next weeks weather on earth, forget about a planet that’s thousands of light years away.

[@a.k.e.epvz2791]

Seems cool!

[@_Future_IITian]

I am thinking about a question from many days please make a video on it. "WHAT IF MASS LOSSES INERTIA?"

[@shifterzx]

Hmm, why would a planet 9x more massive be BETTER than Earth? It would attract more asteroids and be harder to launch into outer space with a higher escape velocity requirement.

[@shifterzx]

"Kepler-20 b, a Super-Earth located 950 light years away that is 1.6 times Earth's radius and 9.7 times it mass. Whereas escape velocity from Earth is roughly 11 km/s, a rocket attempting to leave a Super-Earth similar to Kepler-20 b would need to achieve an escape velocity of ~27.1 km/s. As a result, a single-stage rocket on Kepler-20 b would have to burn 104 times as much fuel as a rocket on Earth to get into orbit."

[@bharatshetty4706]

Don't worry. We aren't going there yet.. CHILL out.

[@bwar1]

Imagine how the gravitational pull would look like, when a human step on it

[@creepysherlock8131]

​@@bharatshetty4706more like, ever

[@user-ef5pe4bc5l]

Science is nothing but hypothesis. It is an ever-changing answer to unknown.

[@christiabacon8001]

The animation is next level!🤠

[@kimbratton9620]

What If is the best!!

[@malcolmbartram5273]

How can we get a probe there? If not how do we know what is there?

[@GREENGAMER41]

Um I’m staying here!😂😂

[@XoryneNevezel]

Thats cool

[@Eric-Matthews_SAW2-SAW4]

Usually who knows if we went there

[@anomalousboobs]

Unrelated, but I had an idea for an episode. Can you do a What If all of the guns and modern weaponry disappeared from the earth? Would be interesting.

[@darshan.b685]

I mean then u should take away all the materials and metals that are used to make guns and Armoury but then we cannot survive but ur idea is a good one ❤

[@AmericaStrongestCountry]

i've subbed for 1 year

[@shaunosmorrison8385]

now to make a custom system in Universe Sandbox that consists of K2-18b, Proxima b and Ross 128b and see how high I can get the life likelihood percentage to be

[@Mrbigmike311]

I visited proxima century B, I can tell you that planet doesn’t not have any life in it. You actually need to terraform it in order to be a living world. Alpha Century III on the other host a breathable world and a nice fauna and flora. It also has a moon just like earth. Having the star makes so much more nice that every sunset is like Tatooine. But in order for humans to get there, we really need to become one single nation to stop pettiness of war amongst us when thousand of worlds out there can be colonized.

[@anamikaagarwal1774]

Visited?!

[@AntiTankLover]

What???

[@lluucasiscool]

what if we went to war with alien life light years away?

[@saulshelly6174]

Video idea: what if everyone where as smart as Albert Einstein

[@pedrocruz4409]

There’s no more what if’s then?

[@robertjnnongsiej2693]

Everything in the universe has an amazing n curious about knowing new thing like exo planet, giant star , black hole even the supernova , but for now earth is the best n the beautiful ever planet except the star which v can't think of even getting to live there ....👏🏻 Just a clap of a thumbnail

[@devileyez78]

Can we just get the Fahrenheit degrees for the country that matters? 😂😂🤷🏻‍♂️

[@firestormthelovewing2114]

3:39 actually if it was a gas giant creatures on that world would be similar to those seen in earths oceans and skies and be big as entire cities

[@HughS-kp1fv]

We gonna ignore.... how the surface is red? We should probably look at numerous blue and green planets first. I ain't a scientist, but it seems logical to try and find a planet that looks like earth.

[@akbarkhan2192]

Well Uranus is blue but it stinks of methane and is completely toxic

[@user-fj7yk2lf3e]

But aliens could probably adapt to this environment

[@harikrishna9590]

Nature has a property that must have a pair of any life and about earth we can assume there must have similar but female planet in the universe.

[@josephsmith9974]

How do they really know huh he just said it’s millions of light years away

[@snowdaniels]

Where have you been all my life😂

[@YusukeEugeneUrameshi]

How do we know the things about these planets light years away from us?

[@MikeAnderson-wh1kc]

How would it take humans 1.2 BILLION years to reach anywhere close to this planet but the James Webb telescope that was launched a few years ago got close enough to look at was able to gather info about it??

[@derpalmendieb942]

because it moves way quicker than we could possibly travel ourselves (as of now)

[@jerof2026]

We’re basically looking at the past since it took 120 years for the light to reach earth. The telescope isn’t going anywhere to take photos. It stays orbiting the sun. You can compare the telescope to your camera but the light you capture is coming from afar

[@andybeeres2452]

First of all it's 1.2 million years, and that's travelling at an average speed that our rockets typically accelerate to. It takes 120 years for the light to reach the earth as the light is always travelling at its usual speed. When we use a telescope we can see the planet as it was 120 years in the past as that's how long the light takes to travel to us.

[@Reyna_Aleese]

@@andybeeres2452 I’m so confused on light years. How are we looking at a planet from 120 years ago, If this new telescope just recently discovered it?

[@andybeeres2452]

@@Reyna_Aleese it discovered it because it looked in the right place. The planet will be billions of years old but there's trillions of planets to find using telescopes and we can't find them all straight away, sometimes we find planets that are closer to us that we've overlooked for various reasons. Now they've discovered they can calculate how far away it is using various methods. So if it's 120 light years away it's taken 120 years for that light to reach earth and us to notice it. It takes a year for light to travel 6 trillion miles so to travel 120 light years would mean travelling 720 trillion miles. That would take millions of years even with our fastest rockets.

[@Oreo293]

Some days 124 years but this video is 120 years

[@Malakazz]

How can it be better if we cant breathe there

[@attanayakeanuda]

Earth is our mother

[@tsatele21]

What if we had a telescope that was like a googol miles long and a googol miles wide. What can we see with that?

[@lebranding]

Imagine we lived on those exoplanets and discovered Earth, observing its blue waters and beautiful green mountains. Let's try to save Earth first before attempting to figure out how to reach those exoplanets.

[@myhearto]

What if light travelled twice as fast

[@somekindofmonster3613]

I wonder what beautiful places I will be missing in the universe. Makes me kinda sad

[@jagannadhv5224]

Bro seriously discovered planet 128 light and cannot know proxima

[@truth2power528]

I have a feeling this planet was discovered inside a computer. Very beautiful cgi imaging.

[@415nices]

keplings: there might be life on earth earthlings: there might be life on kepler

[@rhymeislam7344]

explain projectors Juse from Rise of Cobra movie

[@ragibrownak102]

I wanna leave earth and moving to another planet seems pretty good option than being dead

[@lisapeters9287]

Don’t you know that K2 18 B does indeed have dimethyl sulphide

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explain projectors Juse from Rise of Cobra movei

[@Plmkjh]

Good

[@supermarioennerd8687]

Damn

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Idea: what if mount st Helens was a supervolanco

[@areswiseman6475]

I love the ai animation is more cool than the planets 🎉

[@kefimbando9137]

Potentially host life u said that in could host life in the title

[@cheleviticus8255]

I love my home bro though it has problems but no where is too safe.

[@lisapeters9287]

There’s also a K2 18 C

[@felixjinu1565]

Universe is amazing. It is not understood in our human imagination. 📡

[@kapikoyli]

I think NASA already discovered a planet like this but dont telling us.

[@Chinga3000]

Oh my word it's Javier Escuella from Red Dead RedemptionII!!

[@iamcorneliu1097]

Could host life; * not human life * but life😂

[@DrivinChillin]

This Is Epic I Mean It Would Be Great If We Can Leave Earth And Live On That Planet Its 9 Times Bigger Than Earth!!

[@brandonharristsw7516]

Wow

[@BigHambachi]

First griddy on the moon

[@Pantherslee]

This is the could be video ... Coulda , Woulda Shoulda

[@spartan876_A28]

Hey i have a video suggestion, what if jupiter's atmosphere had oxygen? Could we breathe on jupiter if it did had oxygen in its atmosphere?

[@chance1774]

jupiter is ALL gas dude; there’s no “breathing on” it. nowhere to stand or anything of the sort.

[@Benjamin_0fficial]

How is this better earth?

[@ultrad-rex1389]

That's the thing. It isn't. It isn't like Earth at all.

[@brandonharristsw7516]

Is that real

[@MsCDante]

I figure if any life that isnt native to planet earth wouldnt be able to survive on this planet due to what they adapted to on their planet. Same for us. My fear is that when human life does experience life outside of our own planet, because we found something suitable or somewhat similar, that it (life) will not last as long as we predicted there or we'll have to adapt to life there... which would then cause us to 'evolve'. What would we look like in the next thousand years on the next planet? And for how long b4 we see other older life forms? We say there is no proof due to many reasons having to do with many ways of studying including travel... but just imagine... alien life landing on earth on a piece of land thats uninhabited then going back and stating... theres no way life on this planet exists. They would probably believe that no one can live in such minimal or extreme conditions. I feel like our species tends to count other species out including on our planet until its found then are surprised to find out something else had always existed. In 2023 after everything that has been found on this planet, which isnt 100 percent, you would think we hold the possibility of life being on another planet. What may exist out there may the same (such planets as what mars used to be), similar, or very different. Either way, it has its own atmosphere that can make it impossible for our species to make it on their planets.

[@user-xx3xq5qf7j]

wow cool

[@ermirdestani]

"It is like earth but the air may not be breathable" how should I understand this? So far the conclusion is that it is not like the earth.

[@hbkc83]

Get these planets better names! Please and thanks

[@happyandhealthy888]

3:20 please give us a break with that info

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Germany literally has hyperspace projects lol

[@KnoxxCM999]

102 billion light years ,wow where did the video shot can from .oh wait alien ticktokers

[@user-lo3sk3mp5x]

Очень интересно .

[@philippinecowboy]

Fun Fact: A planet that far away, they don't know anything about it and especially what kind of atmosphere it has, it's nothing but speculation.

[@bedouinadventure]

imagine a planet knows and survived the destruction of technology and now living without it. that would be good again.

[@FireIsNotHot]

You can't find another planet like earth 😏

[@snowdaniels]

What if humans lived in the 10th dimensional space 😉

[@mm.628]

Imagine having roasted alien cow wagyu steak for dinner

[@nikolaveljkovic428]

Even 1G is hard for me, 0,5 would be fine...

[@govindnaik98]

I wish iv existed during the stone age era 🌴🦤

[@lisapeters9287]

Or 73°F. Why do you use centigrade weren’t you born in the UK?

[@Hugllls1971]

Imagine crawling on your face because of its gravity, no thanks!

[@user-ge5vf5md7r]

I dunno but i finally started hearing bits and parts about All tommorows its a little freaky i hope we dont meet the Qu.