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New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

Several small worlds beyond Jupiter are not just frozen rubble. Beneath their shining skins, many hide oceans of liquid water. New research says those seas do not always stay calm. When the ice lids ...

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Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.

“Our findings suggest that Jupiter’s moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds,” Mousis said. “Instead, they may have accreted, or accumulated, a significant inventory of COMs at birth, ...