If you’re in the mood for a road trip and have a few hundred million years to kill, we have the destination for you. About 40 light-years away, orbiting a dim, cool red star called Trappist-1 are ...

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 ...

Equatorial slices of the magnetic field (nT is nanoteslas) for space inside and at Trappist-1e (left) and for rotation 2016 of the sun at the same distance (right), as measured by the Carrington ...

Does the Earth-sized TRAPPIST-1e have the conditions for supporting life as we know it, specifically an appropriate atmosphere? This is what several studies published in The Astrophysical Journal ...

Researchers from School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University say there might actually be too much water for the TRAPPIST-1 planets to harbor life. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

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Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Since its discovery eight years ago, the TRAPPIST-1 star system has ...

Fresh data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided new clues about the nature of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, a rocky world located just 40 light-years from Earth. Even if ...