Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized planet about 40 light years away, may possess an atmosphere capable of supporting liquid water.

New observations of one of the famous TRAPPIST-1 planets are once again teasing scientists with tantalizing clues about a world that may — or may not — harbor an atmosphere capable of sustaining ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid water. Suitable candidates often sit in the "Goldilocks zone," a distance ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which have been observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST has ...

Scientists have begun their study of the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph Olmsted illustration As scientists continue to study a distant star system ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, raising the possibility that it could also have liquid water on its surface and ...

(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 ...

Located about 39 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST system resembles a miniature version of our solar system: The star, an ultracool red dwarf, and all its planets would comfortably fit inside the ...

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 ...