Washington: Two recent studies by NASA with the help of Hubble Space Telescope has detected the presence of water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system.
The two research teams used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to analyze starlight passing through the atmospheres of the five “hot Jupiter” planets, which are known as WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b, WASP-19b and XO-1b.
The atmospheres of all five planets showed signs of water, with the strongest signatures found in the air of WASP-17b and HD209458b.
According to reports the five exoplanets with hints of water are all scorching-hot and are unlikely to host life.
