University of Montreal researchers discover an ocean planet in a binary star system 100 light-years away.
Frankfurt – In the movie "Interstellar," the first planet the spaceship "Endurance" heads to in search of a replacement for Earth, which has become inhospitable, turns out to be an ocean planet – covered all over with water. Researchers of our time do not yet have to go in search of a new home for mankind. Intensive lookout for exoplanets outside of our solar system they hold nevertheless and use for it data of the modern space telescopes.