When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of TRAPPIST-1d transiting its star, seen from up close. Two other worlds, ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere. In exciting new JWST observations, the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e ...

Earth' orbiting within its star's habitable zone, just 20 light-years from Earth, could host extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet orbiting a faint star 40 light-years from home. Scientists are homing in ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. It is part of a group of planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST ...

Fresh data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided new clues about the nature of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, a rocky world located just 40 light-years from Earth. Even if ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - Astronomers have announced a groundbreaking discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. A planet, similar in size to Earth, has been ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, we’ve been finding tons of “exoplanets”—planets orbiting faraway stars. One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for ...

(CNN) — Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James ...

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 ...