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 ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest signal yet that a rocky planet outside our solar system is wrapped ...

New research has revealed the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet located about 40 light-years away. A team from the University of St Andrews has published a study on TRAPPIST-1e, ...

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 ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a ...

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.

Located about 39 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST system resembles a miniature version of our solar system: The star, an ultracool red dwarf, and all its planets would comfortably fit inside the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tucked between a boiled-away desert and a giant snowball, an alien world called TRAPPIST-1e may ...

If there’s life on any of the habitable-zone TRAPPIST-1 worlds, JWST should be able to see signs of it in the planet’s atmosphere, a recent study says. The reverse is also true; if an alien ...