Are aliens living just 40 light-years away? Astronomers 'hit the jackpot' by finding THREE Earth-sized habitable worlds bathed in 'eerie red light' around a nearby star (3)
Trappist-1 is much cooler and redder than the sun and barely larger than Jupiter. Such stars are common in the Milky Way but this is the first time planets have been found around one. The trio of exoplanets is up to 100 times closer to their star than the Earth is to the sun (illustrated) and all three could be habitable