This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like. TRAPPIST-1 fascinates planetary scientists. Just 39 light-years from us exist seven planets orbiting a star. It’s not an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system ...

Just 40 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 system of planets is home to the largest family of Earth-like worlds known to astronomers. At least seven planets are known to orbit within the ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed planetary systems ever discovered. The TRAPPIST-1 system has captivated ...

Astronomers have begun using the James Webb Space Telescope to study the TRAPPIST-1 solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Scientists have waited on pins and needles for more details about the ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

For years, scientists have been debating the odds of life existing on seven fascinating planets orbiting the Trappist-1 star, the most famous planetary system outside our own. The reason? Although ...

A second exoplanet in the TRAPPIST-1 system turns out to have no atmosphere, according to recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and that could be bad news for the search for life in ...

A recent study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to analyze the TRAPPIST-1 system, and specifically the interaction between the parent star, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it ...

A group of scientists concludes that no signs of the atmosphere are found on this TRAPPIST-1 b. With this, the team is currently searching for answers about the contamination of starlight. NASA from ...

A new computer model simulating the evolution of planetary atmospheres found that water may have survived on some planets of the fascinating planetary system. When you purchase through links on our ...