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Earth Could Be Even More Habitable. We’d Just Need to Shift Jupiter’s Orbit

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We have exactly one world, in all the Universe, that we know for a fact to be hospitable to life: ours.

So when we’re looking for habitable planets in other planetary systems, beyond our own corner of the galaxy, we often use Earth as the perfect template.

But a new study has revealed Earth isn’t as habitable as it could be. In fact, it could be even more livable, if Jupiter’s orbit shifted slightly.