It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

There may well be life on a distant planet.

All right, enough of that.

What is Donald Trump up to?

That's what it feels like, especially here in Washington.

All right, as long as I teased it by looking to outer space, I'll tell you a little bit more

about it, and we'll get to all these other stories.

Throwing out the buzzers today, if I seem like I'm in a little bit of a grumpy mood,

I've been dealing with a flat tire, which is no fun.

I'm sure most of you have been through it.

But this distant planet, this is information published based on observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

And, oh, this was published in the Astrophysical Journal.

More questions than answered. So maybe it's not a lock, but it does acknowledge there

are a lot of uncertainties.

Life beyond Earth, think about it.

It all, first of all has a lousy name.

It needs better branding.

The planet is being known as K2-18B.

I think you would agree that that's a misbranding opportunity.

Okay, it's 124 light years away orbiting a red dwarf star.

That to me would diminish the chances of anything being alive there.

But there's a molecule that has been detected that on Earth is related to life itself.

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