The TRAPPIST-1 star system may be too old for life
As the team’s Adam Burgasser explains: if there is life, it’s the “hardy” sort. It would have to survive extreme conditions for billions of years, he says. The upshot? If there is life, humans will have plenty of time to find it. A dwarf like TRAPPIST-1 is so stable that it should last for 900 times longer than the current age of the universe (around 13.7 billion years), and its temperature will…