Our Galaxy Could Be Full of Exoplanets with Oceans | SciShow News

Earlier this spring NASA announced a new research model that predicts that ocean worlds are far from rare, and our galaxy might be full of them. And a new study examines evidence that Pluto may have had an underground ocean all along!

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