About 40 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Aquarius, floats TRAPPIST-1, the most studied planetary system outside our own. Three of its seven planets lie within a habitable zone where ...

Last week, astronomers gathered at the Space Telescope Science Institute, the operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in Baltimore, Maryland for a conference on the “First Science ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

Efforts to observe the atmospheres of planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are being stymied by rambunctious activity on the surface of the red dwarf star at its center, new findings from the James Webb ...

How hot are rocky exoplanets, and could they support life? This is what an international team of researchers hope to figure out as they used the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard NASA’s James ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

"This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018." ...

Of all the planets we’ve discovered beyond our solar system, the majority are not Earth-like at all. They are most often gas giants like Jupiter that orbit very close to their stars, making them ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has started peering at the most tantalizing candidates for life elsewhere in the universe—a group of exoplanets in the star system known as TRAPPIST-1. It means that in ...

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 ...

An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it passes behind the cool, red dwarf star, Trappist-1. Such stars are known for their activity with large starspots and eruptions. Trappist-1 b ...

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 ...