Astronomers have begun using the James Webb Space Telescope to study the TRAPPIST-1 solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Scientists have waited on pins and needles for more details about the ...

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 ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which have been observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST has ...

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 ...

This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an artist's conception of what the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f may look like, based on available data about its diameter, mass and distances from ...

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the innermost world of the TRAPPIST-1 system has no atmosphere — or at most, it’s extremely thinly veiled with the tattered ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook UNSPECIFIED: In this NASA digital illustration handout released on February 22, 2017, an artist's ...

Artist illustration of TRAPPIST-1c with TRAPPIST-1b in the background. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Light curve data of TRAPPIST-1c obtained by JWST as part of the June 2023 study, ...

An artist's impression of the perpetual sunrise that might greet visitors on the surface of planet TRAPPIST-1f. If the planet is tidally locked, the "terminator region" dividing the night side and day ...

The Trappist-1 system, shown here in an artist's conception, has seven known planets, but only three are thought to be habitable. An international scientific team led by Patrick Barth from the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting another star. Scientists said Monday that doesn’t ...