Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf star about 4,000 light-years away. This discovery ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

Although most potentially habitable worlds orbit red dwarf stars, we know larger and brighter stars can harbor life. One ...

Unfortunately, scientists are still unsure if life could survive there for long. Some argue that red dwarf suns are too ...

A distant star system offers hope that our planet will keep spinning, even after the Sun expands into a red giant.

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

The search for a second Earth within the Milky Way is ongoing, but a recently discovered planet falls short of the mark.

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it ...

The newly discovered system reveals a white dwarf with half the mass of the Sun and an Earth-sized planet in a wider orbit, showcasing what a surviving Earth might resemble. Keming Zhang, a researcher ...