Plus, Trappist monasteries can undertake any commercial operation, such as dairy farming or soap making, to remain self-sustaining, ... they might look at it cross-eyed,” he laughs.

Seven Earth-sized planets circle TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star that lies about 40 light-years away. With about 9% of our sun’s mass, this star is very small and dim.

TRAPPIST-1c is also too hot to be in the habitable zone and has been speculated to possess thick clouds of carbon dioxide, like Venus. But the teams reported the same finding: there is no ...

Merton is obviously conversant with St. John of the Cross, St. Bernard, ... In short—Graham summarizes—”become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world.” ...

Those TRAPPIST worlds were deemed unlikely to have atmospheres — and, thus, life — but researchers are looking forward to ...

Red dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 are notorious for emitting flares and hard X-rays in their youth, but the system is just 40 light-years away and has seven Earth-sized worlds. advertisement Phys.org ...

The exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1 are rocky worlds that orbit close to their red dwarf star, and at least three are in the habitable zone. Could they support life?

It's unlikely that TRAPPIST-1c has a carbon dioxide atmosphere, unlike what astronomers previously hypothesized. By Briley Lewis. Published Jun 20, 2023 6:00 PM EDT.

This stock illustration shows TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star, and one of its seven planets. A new preprint has suggested that TRAPPIST-1's solar flare may have primed these planets for life.

TRAPPIST-1 is a small, dim, cool star – it’s less than 0.05% as bright as our Sun, and only about 9% as massive. That’s part of what makes its brood of seven rocky exoplanets such good ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf (or M-dwarf), the smallest class of stars capable of undergoing nuclear fusion. Red dwarfs are also the most common type of star seen in the heavens.

At Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, the monks help make Britain’s only Trappist beer, a full-bodied brew that has won fans since its launch five years ago. By Stephen Castle Reporting from Coalville ...