The scientist is scouring the heavens for a planet home to life. Recently, the tantalizing solar system with not one but seven Earth-sized worlds, just 39 light years ago.

According to Otago Daily Times, for the first time so many terrestrial planets have been found around the star. The scientists believe that the planets are rocky and Earth-sized, and some perhaps warm enough for water. All seven could support liquid water on the surface but only three within the "Goldilocks" zone is neither too hot nor too cold where life is considered a possibility.

The measurement made by powerful space telescope and ground-based observations. That indicates that several of these exoplanets orbit in the habitable zone, where water would naturally exist in liquid form.

All the new planets are relatively close to each other. The person standing on the surface of one would have a view of its neighbors, similar to seeing the moon from Earth, said by scientists. But scientists still believe that much more work remains to determine if any of these planets have the right conditions for life.

GULF TIMES has reported that the discovery has raised hopes the hunt for alien life beyond the solar system may start within the next generation by telescope due to turn on within 10 years. The Nature Journal lead author Michael Gillion said," it will be disappointing if Earth represents the only template for habitation in the universe".

The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system is described last Wednesday in the journal Nature. The star is an ultra-cool dwarf star, much smaller and roughly 200 times fainter than a sun. According to University of Belgium study leader Michael Gillion, if our sun were the size of basketball, TRAPPIST would be the size of a golf ball.

However, the prospect of sending a spacecraft is still a faraway dream. Fortunately, the astronomers expect to learn much more about these seven planets as powerful telescope comes online, in the coming months.

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