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With NASA slated to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa sometime in the next decade, researchers are increasingly confident that the ocean on the celestial satellite “might be habitable.” Speaking at the Goldschmidt 2020 Conference earlier this month, NASA researchers said they have developed a model that shows that Europe, the sixth …

Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that are approximately the size of Jupiter, but orbit their respective star at a short distance, in extreme cases, it only takes 18 Earth hours to complete a full orbit. This means that they tend to be extremely hot, hence their name. Many questions remain about …