Yesterday, 22nd of febuary 2017, NASA announced the first known system of seven earth like planets orbiting a single star otherwise known as TRAPPIST-1. Three of these planets have a high chance of containing life since they are firmly located in the habitable zone; the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.

This discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water – key to life as we know it – under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.

However these planets are 235 trillion miles away from earth and would take 40 light years to get there. Let me break it down in lay man terms, even if it was possible to launch a probe at a relativistic speed of light, it would take about 2 centuries (200 years) to get there and it would be nearly imposible to detect a signal from a small nano probe at that distance.

Unless life truly exist out there in space and this said life somehow develop a means to reach out to us just as we are doing, generation hundred of years away may never be able to truly know for sure if there is life outside our solar system.

Read More: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/trappist1/

Mrs Explorer again

how dem take discover am?
don't tell me shytes like......they used binoculars

Cooool. Wonder if intelligent life exists there and they're also wondering the same about us

1bkaye:
Cooool. Wonder if intelligent life exists there and they're also wondering the same about us

Exactly

My Dear NASA, Have they Confirm if Living things can exist there?

Obviously, humanity has about got to exreme fringes of classical mechanics based means of transportation. One can only cover such huge distance in reasonable time by space-time warping. Welcome to the age of particle physics.