As per New Scientist, the first known moon might have been identified by astronomers outside our solar system. It has been predicted from a long time that Exomoons exists. Chances are also there that these Exomoons may support life.

Till now, there are no confirmed reports regarding the existence of the life on Exomoons, the new moon. It is at a distance of 1,800 light years from Earth.

Majority of the 1,000 exoplanets that have been discovered till date and these have been discovered by studying variation in the light of the star. A few other exoplanets have also been observed with a help of a technique known as gravitational microlensing.

As per David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana and colleagues, they have observed a monolensing event in 2011 with help of telescopes all over the world. They observed that the light of the remote star was 70 times brighter compared to its usual brightness.

Several exoplanets probably have moons orbiting them. Some of those moons might be very large and have an atmosphere that can help in hosting extraterrestrial life. "The beauty of what we have is that we can see events over and over again, whereas microlensing has one snapshot", says David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.