An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet located outside the solar system

There is no limit to new discoveries about our universe: An international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet that may be completely covered in water. The star, named TOI-1452b, is about 100 light-years away from Earth, and it orbits one of the two small stars in the binary system located in the constellation Dragon.

Charles Cadio, a doctoral student at the University of Montreal and a member of the Institute for Exoplanet Research (IREX), led the research. According to the researchers, the planet has a mass and size five times greater than Earth, and is an “ocean world”, meaning it is completely covered in a thick layer of water. It’s just like some of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.