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As another co-author explained to Salon, some of these locations contain so much water that astrobiologists will need a tool for figuring out where and how those worlds contain liquid water on which organic molecules can turn into organisms.

Astrobiologists believe that extraterrestrial life, if it exists, would require a planet or planetary moon with water and carbon in order to form organic molecules, which is why there is interest in Miranda.

The researchers used molecular design to engineer over 500 candidate organic molecules they call "soft-hard zwitterionic trappers."

There would be carbon, an element essential to the creation of organic molecules.

These complex organic molecules have a lot of medical potential due to their highly customizable structure and functional groups.