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A former NASA contractor claims to have proof that the Apollo 11 moon landings were faked when she worked at the agency a few decades ago. When Cyndi Holland got a job at NASA, she was over the moon. Metaphorically of course – not in the way she believed the astronauts of the time were as they pootled around on the International Space Station. “I was a college student and janitor for the US Air Force when I applied for the contractor position with NASA,” she recounts. “It was the winter of 1996, I was a single mom to a five-year-old boy and was trying to get into a career.

NASA astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets around a nearby star, some or all of which could harbour water and possibly life. The exoplanets were spotted around a small, faint star in the constellation of Aquarius called called Trappist-1, less than 40 light-years from Earth, or 235 trillion miles away. Three of the planets found appear to host surface temperatures capable of sustaining liquid water and, therefore, oceans. The discovery has raised hopes that the hunt for alien life beyond the solar system could start much sooner than previously thought.

NASA announced the discovery of 7 new Earth-like planets on Wednesday, at a special press conference in Washington, DC. The newly-discovered exoplanets could be home to extraterrestrial life-forms, under the right atmospheric conditions, according to the agency. Rt.com reports: The exoplanets, meaning planets outside our solar system, circle the star TRAPPIST-1, which lies just 39 light-years from Earth. The discovery sets a new record for the greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. Illustration: sizes of #TRAPPIST1 planets vs.

After holding us in suspense for days with promises of a "major" announcement, NASA has just revealed that it has discovered 7 "Earth-sized" planets orbiting a nearby star that are relatively well positioned to support life.  Which is shocking really that among the literally billions of planets in the universe there might be a couple that are roughly the size of Earth and also roughly the same distance from their star...this is the kind of investigative work that is undoubtedly going to earn some scientists at NASA a really large taxpayer-funded raise.

NASA announced that it is about to reveal a “major discovery about life outside of our solar system” this week. Some of the world’s leading voices on life beyond Earth will gather for a NASA press conference on Wednesday where a major announcement about life on exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun, will be made. Exoplanets are the major hope for life elsewhere in the universe, as many have been found that resemble our own planet and could have the building blocks of life.  Exoplanets are widely believed to be the best hope of finding life elsewhere in the universe.