“‘We’re thrilled to have identified clear signs of water on a planet that is trillions of miles away,’ said study leader Giovanna Tinetti of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in France.” Scientists discover clear signs of existing water well outside the solar system at HD 189733b, a Jupiter-ish gas giant in the Vulpecula constellation, 64 light years away. “The researchers found that the planet absorbed starlight in such a way that could only be explained by the presence of water vapor in its atmosphere.“