If you were to hop on a ship traveling at the speed of light and head out into the galaxy for 40 years, you might come across a cool, red star circled by seven worlds.
Some of those seven Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may represent our best chance for finding life of some kind outside of our solar system.
And now, the Hubble Space Telescope is starting to nail down just how much water these worlds may hold. This is a particularly important measurement because nearly every place on Earth with water also harbors life.
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