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The James Webb Tombs Trappist-1d: Confirms that the One Who Was "the Twin of the Earth" Has No Atmosphere, and Redirects the Search for Life to the Outer Planets

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The TRAPPIST-1 system has been the star of the search for habitable exoplanets for nearly a decade. 40 light years from Earth, around a cold red dwarf, seven rocky planets the size of the Earth occupy orbits so compact that the entire system would fit into Calisto’s orbit around Jupiter. Four of those planets are in the theoretical habitable zone. The dream was to find a “twin” of the Earth with atmosphere. The James Webb telescope (JWST) has be…
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The TRAPPIST-1 system has been the star of the search for habitable exoplanets for nearly a decade. 40 light years from Earth, around a cold red dwarf, seven rocky planets the size of the Earth occupy orbits so compact that the entire system would fit into Calisto’s orbit around Jupiter. Four of those planets are in the theoretical habitable zone. The dream was to find a “twin” of the Earth with atmosphere. The James Webb telescope (JWST) has be…

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WWWhat's new broke the news on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
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