The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...
Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system. Newspapers around the world printed the discovery on their front pages: Astronomers had found that ...
A recent study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to analyze the TRAPPIST-1 system, and specifically the interaction between the parent star, ...
Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation Aquarius about 40 light-years from Earth, spits out bursts of energy known ...
Astronomers have begun using the James Webb Space Telescope to study the TRAPPIST-1 solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Scientists have waited on pins and needles for more details about the ...
After planet b a few months ago, it is now the turn of planet c in the TRAPPIST-1 system to be the target of the JWST space telescope. An international research group, including Michaël Gillon, ...