TRAPPIST-1 Planets Discovery Explained: What Are Exoplanets, and Is There Life?
 

TRAPPIST-1 Planets Discovery Explained: What Are Exoplanets, and Is There Life?
Is anyone out there? Seven possibly life-sustaining, Earth-size planets were discovered revolving around the tiny TRAPPIST-1 star, according to a new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, February 22.


The solar system is just 39 light-years away from our own system, which, in the grand scale of

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