The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the first organic molecule on a planet that's not in our solar system. According to NASA, this breakthrough could be a major step toward discovering life on other planets. Scientists believe that the organic compound detected, methane, can be an integral part in the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it.

The discovery was made on a planet called HD 189733b, which is 63 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Vulpecula. Hubble also confirmed the existence of water molecules in the planet's atmosphere--a discovery made by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2007.

The planet is called a "hot Jupiter" because it is about the size of the giant planet in our solar system but is closer to its sun than planet Mercury is to ours. It takes the planet just two days to orbit its sun. Its temperature is about 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, considered to be too hot for life as we know it. But this discovery means that methane and other compounds can probably be identified on other, more Earth-like, planets somewhere in the galaxy.

Here is an artist's conception of HD 189733b.

Source: http://www.news.com/2300-11397_3-6235000-1.html

I don't know jack about the planets, but if theres life on this one there is bound to be more on others.

Switchfoot,

"Here is an artist's conception of HD 189733b."

LOL. Pwned.

lol...are you blushing now?

The only bad part is all planets not in our solar system is the fact that we will probably never get to it in like 1000+ years

Wow, this is really cool. Just like it said that is way too hot to support life, but maybe some kind of weird species actually live there and they have adapted to that kind of conditions. I really doubt it, but that would be really cool.

Concerning that ocean floor and space thing, our current level of technology has a lot to do with that.

There is no pressure in space.

You see that's why we explore space more then we do the ocean floor because we already know that giant squids exist, but we don't know if there's other life out there. Also, think about this, what if we do find some kind of super advanced civilization and you're able to travel there, and then you can explore their ocean floor and they'll probably have some kind of super giant squid. Haha, I thinking to much outside the box.

Switchfoot, become and engineer and design a sub that will get to the bottom of the ocean.

Then talk to the military.  They'll want to know about it, since they've been trying for years.