25-02-2017 21:33 via universetoday.com

SETI Has Already Tried Listening to TRAPPIST-1 for Aliens

The Trappist-1 system has been featured in the news quite a bit lately. In May of 2016, it appeared in the headlines after researchers announced the discovery of three exoplanets orbiting around the red dwarf star. And then there was the news earlier this week of how follow-up examinations from ground-based telescopes and the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that there were actually seven planets in this system.
And now it seems that there is more news to be had from this star system. As it turn
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