For centuries humanity wonders if we are alone in the universe or there is another form of life “out there”. Now, Chinese scientists have made an impressive discovery that, they claim, offers a very promising indication that there is indeed extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, discovered a planet “over-eg” about 2,400 light years away, where biological life could thrive.

According to the Daily Mail, the planet Kepler-725C, as it was called, was found in the “habitable zone” of a sun-like star and has 10 times the mass of the Earth.

“Habitable zone” is considered a distance from the central star, where there may be water in liquid form as temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold.

The Kepler-725C probably has wet water on its surface, which suggests the likelihood of carbon-based life similar to that on Earth.

Also, the planet looks “appearance” with the earth – it is considered rocky, with oceans and land.

“Kepler-725C could just be a water world with dominant volatile substances,” Chinese scientists say.

Artistic Imaging of the Kepler-725 System: The Little Planet Lower Right is the recently discovered ‘over-eg’ in the habitable zone

. Kepler-725C completes a trajectory around his star every 207.5 days, which means that one year there is less than one year on Earth.

Due to differences in its axis compared to our planet, the planet takes about 1.4 times the sunlight from the earth. “But that doesn’t make Kepler-725C too hot to rule out the likelihood of life on his surface,” according to researchers.

Also, the planet is significantly younger than our sun – just 1.6 billion years, compared to our 4.6 billion years.

The Kepler-725C may belong to a new category of habitable superiority outside our solar system, known as “oceanic” planets or “mini-dimensions”.

These young exoplanets have high temperatures, are covered by oceans and have hydrogen -rich atmospheres.

These planets, and therefore the Kepler-725C “could allow a significantly wider discovery space in the search for potentially habitable planets,” the group of Chinese scientists said.

For their study, the researchers used data from NASA’s Kepler telescope, which records information about exoplanets while moving in front of their stars, a method known as “crossing”.