WE ARE already taking the first steps toward learning if there could be life on TRAPPIST-1’s newly discovered planets – and what that life might look like. Last week, a team led by MichaA l Gillon at Belgium’s University of Liege announced that TRAPPIST-1, a small, faint star some 40 light years away, has four more rocky planets to join the three we already knew about.
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7 Earth-size planets identified in orbit around a dwarf star
‘A leap forward’: Scientists found that seven Earth-size planets orbit the dwarf star Trappist-1. If our sun were the size of a basketball, Trappist-1 would be a golf ball.
Newly-found star system has SEVEN Earth-like planets
We’ll know if life exists in a decade, but it is likely to take hundreds of thousands of years to reach the system Seven Earth-like planets have been discovered orbiting nearby dwarf star ‘Trappist-1’, and all of them could have water at their surface, one of the key components of life. Researchers claim that they will know whether or not there is life on any of the planets within a decade, and said ‘this is just the beginning.’
7 Earth-like worlds could be best bet to find alien life – CNET
Astronomers call it the most incredible star system they’ve ever seen. A newly discovered set of exoplanets only 39 light-years away could be the perfect lab for finally proving we aren’t alone.
‘Seven sisters’: astronomers find star system with multiple Earth-like planets
Seven planets with size and mass similar to Earth’s have been discovered orbiting the same nearby star, prompting astronomers to dub the finding our “seven sisters”. It’s been extinct for about 4500 years, but Harvard geneticists are working to bring a version of the woolly mammoth back to life.