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Exploring 17 Potential Worlds |  Could Life Thrive Beyond Our Solar System? | Swimming Robots and the Quest for Alien Life !  Exploring 17 Potential Worlds | Could Life Thrive Beyond Our Solar System? | Swimming Robots and the Quest for Alien Life !  Introduction :  In a groundbreaking NASA study, 17 distant planets have emerged as potential candidates for harboring life's essential ingredients.  These exoplanets, despite being Earth-sized, boast icy surfaces but might possess oceans of liquid water beneath. These icy worlds, akin to Jupiter's moons, could offer the right conditions for sustaining life. Unveiling the Icy Exoplanets :  NASA's recent exploration points to the likelihood of these 17 worlds, located outside our solar system, maintaining internal oceans due to adequate internal heating, driven by radioactive elements and tidal forces.  Lynnae Quick from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center emphasized that these exoplanets might su...