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The James Webb Space Telescope has returned new observations from TRAPPIST-1e, one of the most intriguing Earth-sized ...

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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 ...

"This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved one of the first major science goals announced for it way back in 2017. The infrared instrument has now probed the atmosphere around one of the TRAPPIST-1 ...

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 ...

The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system stirred up excitement about a star system with three potentially habitable worlds, but recent observations of the innermost two planets have had discouraging ...

TRAPPIST-1 just reminded us, again, that space is unforgiving. Last year, a team of astronomers used JWST to measure the starlight shining around the edges of TRAPPIST-1b as the rocky little planet ...

Scientists will be able to work out whether a group of nearby exoplanets are habitable or not by studying their potential atmospheres, a NASA expert has said. The question of whether the TRAPPIST-1 ...

Several years ago, astronomers pointed a telescope at another star and discovered something remarkable: seven planets, each one about the same size as Earth. The planets were quite close to their ...