Big cheers for NASA!
Yesterday, they announced a major discovery (not aliens, sorry): a system of seven Earth-sized planets, all which orbit a single star. Three of the planets are believed to be located in a habitable zone, and all seven planets have the potential of containing liquid water.
These planets – known as exoplanets, because they’re outside our solar system – are about 40 light-years from Earth, and reside in an exoplanet system that scientists are calling TRAPPIST-1.
The discovery was made via data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Check out this cool 360-degree video of one of the planets, known as TRAPPIST-1d: