If you were to hop on a ship traveling at the speed of light and head out into the galaxy for 40 years, you might come across a cool, red star circled by seven worlds. Some of those seven Earth-sized ...

Churning magnetic activity on the surface of TRAPPIST-1's red dwarf star is interfering with the JWST’s efforts to determine whether any of the orbiting planets are habitable. When you purchase ...

Could the system of seven Earth-size planets 40 light-years away host ETs? Some researchers argue they could some day, if they don't already. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The seven rocky planets circling the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 have lots of water, a new study ...

How long would it take to reach Trappist-1 if we launched our fastest spacecraft today? In this cinematic deep dive, we hold ...

The orbits of all seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are now known. Astronomers have nailed down the path of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost planet in the system, finding that this world ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since astronomers announced the discovery of seven exoplanets around the star called TRAPPIST-1, researchers have been diving into the data in an attempt to determine what the planets are like.

Arguably the most exciting solar system studied this year—beyond our own, of course—could fulfill an important likely prerequisite for finding life beyond Earth, according to a new paper published in ...

The site "is a lovely place," writes Mike O'Brien. "The chant of birdsong serenades the resting monks within a cathedral of ...

Could the TRAPPIST-1 star system host a life-friendly planet? Planetary scientists probing the bevy of small, Earth-sized worlds surrounding this not-too-distant star have found that at least a few ...