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TRAPPIST-1
It’s been less than a year since astronomers detected seven planets around TRAPPIST-1 , a remarkable star system located 39 light years from Earth. New research suggests life could take root on at l…
NASA Perhaps the most exciting exoplanet discovery to date was announced earlier this year when researchers using multiple telescopes confirmed that there are seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a sta…
Scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced a remarkable new discovery: An entire system of Earth-sized planets. If that’s not enough, the team asse…
Earlier this year, NASA made headlines when they announced the finding of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light years away. Three of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are within the star's goldilocks zo…
By studying the compositions of "thousands of numerical simulations to identify the planets stable for millions of years, Quarles concluded that six of the seven planets are consistent with an E…
On July 23, 2015, NASA announced the discovery of the first truly Earth-like planet. This find comes thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope , which was launched in March of 2009 and has been planet hu…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is planned to be launched next year and astronomers consider that this telescope is their best hope of finding life beyond Earth. The JWST is the successor to th…
The planet, LHS 1140b, is one of seven orbiting a star named Trappist-1. It has immediately been pushed to the front of the queue in the quest to find alien life – because it lies in the ‘Goldilocks’…
Both the most cynical person on Earth and the world’s greatest optimist could easily look at everything around them and ask: could this truly be all there is in the universe? Whatever your reason for…
