Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

NASA has reported an exceptional event on TRAPPIST-1 b, which structurally resembles Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered infrared light there. It turns out that not all the ...

This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional, incredibly powerful telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) 800,000 years ...

Nasa’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope discovered several rocky exoplanets orbiting a star known as TRAPPIST-1. But now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, also known as the Webb ...

Of particular interest to researchers is the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth, consisting of a red dwarf star and seven planets similar in size to Earth. Three of those planets ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Three new planets were discovered by the European Southern Observatory with its Belgian Trappist telescope. They orbit a star much smaller and more dim than our sun ...

The groundbreaking discovery came from a team using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, who in 2016 identified three possible planets in the TRAPPIST-1 ...

Astronomers have long believed that planet-forming disks—clouds of gas and dust around young stars—last only about 10 million ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star lying about 40.7 light-years away. It is of particular interest because it has seven ...