On Feb. 22, 2017, scientists announced the discovery of TRAPPIST-1, an alien solar system with at least seven Earth-sized planets. See pictures of the discovery here. Read the Full Story.

Feast your eyes and behold, our first glorious image of the TRAPPIST ... places to look for life beyond the Solar System. So all eyes will be on TRAPPIST-1 for the next few years at least.

For those enthralled by the first images of TRAPPIST-1 system from NASA, here's some good news: the space agency recently released even more photos. The raw images of the seven recently discovered ...

The seven worlds of TRAPPIST-1 are the most intriguing exoplanetary system discovered so far. What are these planets like, and could they support life? When you purchase through links on our site ...

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star ... But we won't be able to directly image the solar system with current technology, Gillon said. Because the planets are so close to their star, they ...

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A new study has further cemented the idea that TRAPPIST-1 might be our best bet for finding life outside the Solar System. One of the most interesting things about this seven-planet system ...

But in the last 30 years, telescopes sensitive enough to infer the presence of exoplanets—planets outside our own solar system ... will be 4.5 days. The Trappist-1 system, which hosts seven ...

This raises a question: Could aliens be watching for PPOs of planets in our own solar system? Those would happen more infrequently than in the TRAPPIST-1 system, where the planets are so close to ...