{"id":3924109,"date":"2026-02-24T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/are-there-aliens-broadcasting-from-hycean-world-k2-18b-astronomers-just-listened-in\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:03:38","slug":"are-there-aliens-broadcasting-from-hycean-world-k2-18b-astronomers-just-listened-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/are-there-aliens-broadcasting-from-hycean-world-k2-18b-astronomers-just-listened-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there aliens broadcasting from Hycean world K2-18b? Astronomers just listened in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you&#8217;ve been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you&#8217;ve definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 light years away in the constellation Leo, it&#8217;s attracted a lot of attention as it sits squarely in its red dwarf host star&#8217;s habitable zone, and measurements of the James Webb Space Telescope show its atmosphere is rich in carbon dioxide and methane. It&#8217;s one of the prime candidates for a &#8220;Hycean&#8221; world\u2014one where a thick hydrogen-rich atmosphere covers a global liquid water ocean.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-aliens-hycean-world-k2-18b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you&#8217;ve definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 light years away in the constellation Leo, it&#8217;s attracted a lot of attention as it sits squarely in its red dwarf host star&#8217;s habitable zone, and measurements of the James Webb Space Telescope show its atmosphere [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}