Scientists have discovered a water world that could support a wide variety of life forms.

TOI-1452 b is an exoplanet located in a binary star system some one hundred light years away from Earth.

The rocky planet is reportedly fully covered in water and is located in its solar system’s goldilocks zone, meaning it has an ideal distance from the sun it is orbiting to host life.

According to the team of international astronomers led by Charles Cadieux, a member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets, the planet his team investigated is in some ways similar to Earth. Though it is just slightly bigger than our home, however, it has a much higher mass.

The discovery was made by Cadieux and his team after they followed the trail left behind by NASA’s TESS space telescope.

“I’m extremely proud of this discovery because it shows the high caliber of our researchers and instrumentation,” René Doyon, the director of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets and a professor at Université de Montréal, said.

“It is thanks to the OMM, a special instrument designed in our labs called SPIRou, and an innovative analytic method developed by our research team that we were able to detect this one-of-a-kind exoplanet.”

The researchers further explained that TOI-1452 b orbits one of the two stars located in its solar system. Both stars are believed to be smaller than The Sun.

“TOI-1452 b is one of the best candidates for an ocean planet that we have found to date,” Cadieux added.

“It’s radius and mass suggest a much lower density [meaning a composition made of lighter materials such as water] than what one would expect for a planet that is basically made up of metal and rock, like Earth.”

While it is highly unlikely we will ever get to see the blue planet in person, the discovery is likely to spark additional observations and investigation into TOI-1452 b and its solar system.

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