The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like. TRAPPIST-1 fascinates planetary scientists. Just 39 light-years from us exist seven planets orbiting a star. It’s not an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system ...

Just 40 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 system of planets is home to the largest family of Earth-like worlds known to astronomers. At least seven planets are known to orbit within the ...

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 ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed planetary systems ever discovered. The TRAPPIST-1 system has captivated ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to analyze the TRAPPIST-1 system, and specifically the interaction between the parent star, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it ...

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 ...

Last week, astronomers gathered at the Space Telescope Science Institute, the operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in Baltimore, Maryland for a conference on the “First Science ...

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 ...