The TRAPPIST-1 solar system, depicted in this artist's impression, might harbor Earth clones with oceans and rich atmospheres. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) A young ...

How can volcanic gases help shield exoplanets from atmospheric erosion? This is what a recent study published in The ...

The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...

The TRAPPIST-1 solar system generated a swell of interest when it was observed several years ago. In 2016, astronomers using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) at La ...

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 ...

Planets are bodies that orbit a star and have sufficient gravitational mass that they form themselves into roughly spherical shapes that, in turn, exert gravitational force on smaller objects around ...

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 ...

In the past 20 years, the number of exoplanets known to science has ballooned from dozens to thousands, thanks to missions like the dearly departed Kepler Space Telescope. Just 40 light-years away, ...

Astronomers obtained new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on TRAPPIST-1 b, the planet in the TRAPPIST-1 solar system closest to its star. These new observations offer insights into how ...

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New work from a team of Carnegie scientists (and one Carnegie alumnus) asked whether any gas giant planets could potentially orbit TRAPPIST-1 at distances greater than that of the star’s seven known ...