New type of hot ocean exoplanets could be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life

According to a new study hot exoplanets with oceans and hydrogen atmospheres could be the first place where we will find new life. There could be more of them than Earth-like exoplanets and it is easier to observe them, than smaller rocky objects.

  
New type of exoplanet identified: hot ocean worlds with hydrogen atmosphere (hycean planets)
  
More numerous and better observable, than Earth-like planets
  
Wider habitability zone around star