Resumen de Seeking life on new rocky worlds
People 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 Michael 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 they already knew about. All are less than 20 per cent bigger than Earth, and all orbit well within the distance at which Mercury circles the sun. Despite this closeness, the planets may be candidates to search for life
