The Earth-size world was discovered by the Search for habitable Planets Eclipsing Ultra-cool Stars (SPECULOOS) project located at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A small, cool ... the star TRAPPIST-1, a ultracool dwarf star only about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth. The planetary haul -- which includes at least six rocky planets total ...