In a galaxy far, far away ... did we find life?

In the last few years, astronomers have discovered that our galaxy is teeming with planets unlike anything in our solar system. One such exotic world, K2-18b, made the news recently over what some scientists claim is tentative evidence of what could be signs of life. Others say it’s far too soon to tell.

K2-18b weighs in at more than eight times the mass of Earth, orbits a red dwarf star every 33 days and just might be covered with a massive ocean and blanketed by an atmosphere complete with water vapor and rain clouds, according to work done by two teams of researchers..