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Rice University: Orbital Harmony Limits Late Arrival of Water on TRAPPIST-1 Planets
November 26, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 26 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2021:

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Fragile orbits of seven exoplanets could survive only limited early bombardment

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Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to determine how much physical abuse the planets could have withstood in their infancy.

"After rocky . . .

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