The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and collapse into a dense, Earth-sized remnant called a white dwarf. Though it will no longer shine as it once did, this stellar core ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the few potentially habitable worlds close enough and positioned just right for the next ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

Astronomers found an ancient planetary system being consumed by white dwarf LSPM J0207+3331, hosting the oldest, most ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.

Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...