{"id":239364,"date":"2025-09-19T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:48:11","slug":"historic-find-researchers-say-earth-like-exoplanet-could-be-habitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239364\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic find? Researchers say Earth-like exoplanet could be habitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA\/CNN NEWSOURCE\/WKRC) &#8211; Astronomers have announced a groundbreaking discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. A planet, similar in size to Earth, has been identified as part of the &#8220;TRAPPIST-1&#8221; system, located 40 light years away. This exoplanet was discovered during preliminary observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are optimistic about the potential habitability of this celestial body. They said, &#8220;They could soon confirm if the exoplanet is habitable and could sustain liquid water.&#8221; If confirmed, it would mark the first time in history that an Earth-like atmosphere has been discovered on an exoplanet. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;TRAPPIST-1&#8221; planetary system was first located in 2016 by five Belgian astronomers, who also named it. The system has been heavily studied, with additional planets known to orbit the star.<\/p>\n<p>The findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NASA\/CNN NEWSOURCE\/WKRC) &#8211; Astronomers have announced a groundbreaking discovery that could change our understanding of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[128120,128119,14826,128118,17301,28420,128121,159,783,128117,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-239364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-astronomical-discovery","9":"tag-earth-like","10":"tag-exoplanet","11":"tag-habitable","12":"tag-james-webb-space-telescope","13":"tag-liquid-water","14":"tag-planetary-system","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-trappist-1","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115231988281972511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}