Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

Scientists model the planets around Trappist-1 and decide that if there's life on one of these planets, there's probably life on more than one of them. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011 ...

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.

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 ...

A group of Chinese scientists is diving deep into the cosmos in search of alien radio signals from the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which might house planets that could support life. This is no small feat, ...

Despite being 39 light years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 star system has been very much in the news recently. This is not only because the red dwarf has no less than seven Earthlike planets, but three ...

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As exciting as it was, the recent discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven potentially habitable planets still left scientists with plenty of questions. One area where they were really left in ...

Imagine standing on a world 40 light-years from Earth. You look up, and see other planets slowing moving through the sky, sisters to the world you find yourself on. You notice that it's relatively ...