Water Discovered in Space

How big is the universe? How is it possible for us to be the only planet that has the capability of inhibiting more than 7 billion people in a galaxy as enormous as ours? Could there be life somewhere else in the universe that we have not yet discovered? So many questions and little answers to the mysteries that lie around us. But after many years of studies, what do we actually know?

This is really quite unfair, and could be grounds for doubting that the cosmos knows what it's doing. But in terms of physics, although there are some really very appealing, very promising, theoretical frameworks that begin to answer the question, the simple truth is that we are not sure which might be right. It may be that the universe springs from an inherently unstable 'nothingness'. So what do we actually know about space? Well, we can start off by saying that water is a prime requisite for life as we know it, and although Earth is the only place in the solar system with large oceans of it, water is the most common compound in the Universe. According to NASA, water molecules have been found in clouds in deep space. One recently discovered cache of water molecules in a tiny corner of the universe contains 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans. Surprising right?

Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe. The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty lush. Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water 20,000 times over. Since water started life on earth, is it possible for it to start life elsewhere in the universe?