How this nearby star system could be the key to finding ALIENS
In February, the space agency announced the discovery of a star known as TRAPPIST-1 which was found to have seven planets orbiting it.
The newly discovered solar system, which is the closest to Earth ever found, has attracted the interest of alien hunters as three of its planets fall into the star’s habitable, or “goldilocks”, zone – the region around a host star where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold to support life.
Now, experts at the space institute say that TRAPPIST-1 could be up to 9.8 billion years old and a minimum of 5.4 billion years old – both of which are older than our solar system at 4.5 billion years old.
If enough time has passed for intelligent life to evolve here, the scientists say that if the planets are as habitable as they believe they are in the star system 40 light-years away, there is a decent chance that ET may be living there.