TRAPPIST-1
Astronomers Find Another Solar System with 8 Planets. Uh, Pluto, About that Deplaneting…
A research team recently applied a Google "neural net" to Kepler data, which conformed the existence of a star system…
New Study Claims that TRAPPIST-1 Could Also Have Gas Giants
A new study led by researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Science indicates that TRAPPIST-1 could also be orbited by…
Hubble Spots First Indications of Water on TRAPPIST-1s Planets
A new study by an international team of astronomers indicates that the outermost planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system could still…
Scientists Discover TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System
A new study by a pair of astronomers has revealed that the TRAPPIST-1 system is up to twice as old…
Even Though Red Dwarfs Have Long Lasting Habitable Zones, They’d be Brutal to Life
Two new studies from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have thrown some cold water on the notion that planets…
We Have More Details on the Outermost Trappist-1 Planet!
A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed information about the surface conditions on TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet.
Here’s How We Can Detect Plants on Extrasolar Planets
In a presentation at Breakthrough Discuss, astrophysicist Dr. Berdyugina explained how methods used to study stars could be used to…
TRAPPIST-1 System Ideal For Life Swapping
A new study of the TRAPPIST-1 system indicates that life-swapping may take place between the planets in its habitable zone,…
TRAPPIST-1 Is Showing A Bit Too Much Flare
The TRAPPIST-1 star might flare too frequently and too violently for life to exist on the TRAPPIST planets.
NASA Brings Trappist-1 Into Focus… Kinda Sorta
NASA recently announced the release of raw, uncalibrated data of the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which was collected by the Kepler…