A seven-planet system some 40 light-years from Earth could be swimming in water, new research shows. In February 2017 scientists announced the discovery of several exoplanets orbiting the red dwarf ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of TRAPPIST-1d transiting its star, seen from up close. Two other worlds, ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists from the Universities of Montreal, Chicago, and the CNRS Earth and Universe has just published in The Astrophysical ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet orbiting a faint star 40 light-years from home. Scientists are homing in ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

TRAPPIST-1 looks small and calm from Earth. Up close, it is anything but. The cool red star about 40 light-years away erupts with bursts of energy many times each day, sending radiation racing across ...

Scientists have begun their study of the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph Olmsted illustration As scientists continue to study a distant star system ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large... Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, we’ve been finding tons of “exoplanets”—planets orbiting faraway stars. One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for ...

There's bad news for our hopes of habitable planets existing around TRAPPIST-1, with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finding no evidence for an Earth-like atmosphere on a third world orbiting ...