19 May 2017
Exoplanets galore and possibly the next Trappist-1 system?
... these signals are confirmed to be additional exoplanets at a later date, such a set-up could rival the recently announced Trappist-1 system, which has seven planets in a favourable position near to its star. HD 20794 is a G8 main-sequence type star...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... departing hydrogen. The amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted by TRAPPIST-1, does indeed suggest that the planets could have lost... wavelengths to determine the nature of the TRAPPIST-1 planets and their potential habitability,” concludes Bourrier...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
..., named after the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, is located in the Aquarius constellation, which... the rest – bringing the total number of exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 up to seven. The project team was able to ...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
...the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. A new study that has looked at the planets ... of the densities help strengthen the case that the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets are not barren rocky worlds, but some could contain...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
... astronomers and enthusiasts alike. The system known as Trappist-1, set a new record for the greatest number ..., I.e wobble. While HD 3445 may be one planet short of Trappist-1, it also differs in other fundamental aspects, for example, according to...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
...nearest exoplanet neighbour – look to us if we observed it with a telescope. Proxima b and the most promising of the TRAPPIST-1 family of planets, TRAPPIST-1d, orbit their host stars, both of which are red dwarfs, in 25 days or fewer. One consequence...
