Spencer Trappist Brewery, the only Trappist brewery located in the United States, announced it was ceasing operations via a Facebook post on Saturday. Trappist beer, or beer brewed by Catholic monks ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system has fascinated astronomers and the general public alike since it was revealed by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in February 2017. Now, a series of four studies from the ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Like most people, Trappist order monks and nuns in the Dubuque area have to find ways to pay the bills. Without much funding from their orders, their dioceses or the Vatican, the monks ...

DUBUQUE — Like most people, Trappist monks and nuns in the Dubuque area have to find ways to pay the bills. Without much funding from their orders, their dioceses or the Vatican, the monks of New ...

A seven-planet system some 40 light-years from Earth could be swimming in water, new research shows. In February 2017 scientists announced the discovery of several exoplanets orbiting the red dwarf ...

This Trappist ale from Orval Brewery is one of only two beers that it brews, and the only one it bottles.(Joe Kline/Bulletin photo) This Sunday is Easter, and though many equate the holiday with ...

Tynt Meadow English Trappist Ale will be released on July 9. (Credit: Mount Saint Bernard Abbey.) Listen COALVILLE, United Kingdom – For the monks of Mount Saint Bernard abbey, St. Patrick’s Day had a ...

We’re now officially into Lenten season, when many people make sacrifices like giving up sweets, soda or beer. (Why would anyone give up beer? That’s like giving up oxygen. But I digress.) Instead of ...

Last year, NASA astronomers announced the discovery of a solar system with seven Earth-like planets. The TRAPPIST-1 system marked not only the highest number of Earth-like planets ever found around a ...

Monasteries are holy places of quiet and contemplation, but even they can’t escape the tyranny of I.P.A.s. This month, St. Joseph’s Abbey, located an hour west of Boston in the town of Spencer, ...

If you were to hop on a ship traveling at the speed of light and head out into the galaxy for 40 years, you might come across a cool, red star circled by seven worlds. Some of those seven Earth-sized ...

Arguably the most exciting solar system studied this year—beyond our own, of course—could fulfill an important likely prerequisite for finding life beyond Earth, according to a new paper published in ...