Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A seven-planet system some 40 light-years from Earth could be swimming in water, new research shows. In February 2017 scientists ...

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 ...

Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool red dwarf, located about 40 light-years away in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of TRAPPIST-1d transiting its star, seen from up close. Two other worlds, TRAPPIST-1b and c, are also ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around its star ...

How can volcanic gases help shield exoplanets from atmospheric erosion? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how ...

It’s been seven years since astronomers were thrilled over the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a seven-planet solar system orbiting a star 40 light-years away. At first, it looked like it had all ...

Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation Aquarius about 40 light-years from Earth, spits out bursts of energy known ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d is one of seven rocky planets close in size to Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years away. Could it be habitable? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now taken a ...

Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that has sparked curiosity in astronomers for generations. There are at least 6,000 known planets outside our Solar System (also known as exoplanets), but ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

This artist’s impression shows the TRAPPIST-1 system from the most distant planet (TRAPPIST-1h). In the video, the transits of two inner planets can be seen, with the large disc of TRAPPIST-1g ...