3 Earth-sized Planets Found Around One of Earth's Nearest Neighbors

GJ 1061 is a cool red dwarf similar to the star TRAPPIST-1. This artist's concept imagines a view from the surface of one of TRAPPIST-1's multiple exoplanets. (Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO)There is a triplet of Earth-sized planet candidates orbiting
a star just 12 light-years away, a new study has found. And one appears to be
in the habitable zone.
All three candidates are thought to be at least 1.4 to 1.8
times the mass of Earth, and orbit the star every three to 13 days, which would
put