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TRAPPIST-1

Artwork depicting a star with several planets orbiting it. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

How many habitable planets can one star have? Turns out, about 6.

By Phil Plait |

2 years ago

Artwork showing the scale of the size of the planets and the star of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The orbital distance are not to scale, and surface features are imagined. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may be older than Earth!

By Phil Plait |

5 years ago