Scientists waited on pins and needles for more details about the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, a family of seven Earth-size planets discovered not too far away that could support life.
Now the James Webb Space Telescope, the great sky-high observatory operated by NASA and the European and Canadian Space Agencies, is providing some of that long-awaited data. Astronomers have just released the first results from a study of the atmosphere of one of the rocky exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, the host star just 41 light-years from Earth.