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Table salt may be hiding in Europa’s underground sea

Observations of Europa by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the moon’s ice-covered ocean may hold sodium chloride, or common table salt. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/table-salt-europa-jupiter-moon-underground-sea4…

Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists

New analyses of the data used to find the first discovered exomoon are reaching conflicting results. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/skepticism-whether-first-known-exomoon-exists-kepler4…