The odds of finding extraterrestrial life within our own solar system just increased slightly. Jupiter’s icy moon Europa meets not just one, but two of the critical requirements for life, according to scientists. Experts have known about the distant moon’s enormous underground ocean for decades. That ocean could be a potential home for other living [...]

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We already knew that the planet Jupiter was hit by a comet the other day.  What we did NOT know, however, was that this comet smashed a hole in Jupiter…and that hole is about the size of the planet Earth! What’s even more impressive is that this hole was discovered by an amateur astronomer. Australian [...]

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Astronomers say that the planet Jupiter has likely been struck by a comet. Pictures taken early on Monday morning by NASA‘s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii reveal a dark scar in Jupiter’s atmosphere near the south pole of the planet. The images also show bright upwelling particles in the atmosphere, detected in near-infrared wavelengths. “We [...]

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