Webb telescope may have just revealed an alien world with air

Astronomers have homed in on a world they believe might have just the right conditions for a thick atmosphere and an ocean half the size of the Atlantic. The exoplanet — a world orbiting a star other than the sun — is LHS 1140 b, and it's about 48 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Cetus. The planet is a little less than double the size of Earth.A team of scientists pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at LHS 1140 b twice inDecember 2023. Using a special instrum