White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

A new study from Kyoto University has shown that white dwarfs, can be significantly hotter than expected when locked in tight ...

If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world breaks almost ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

The tides are changing for white dwarfs Old stars in binary systems may be even hotter than previously thought. (Nanowerk ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

Old binary star systems may contain stars that are even hotter than scientists previously believed. White dwarfs are the dense, compact remains left behind when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, a ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

From blocking Clinton's carbon tax to undermining Biden's climate initiatives, fossil fuel companies have spent 50 years ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect starlight, and nobody does it better than LTT9779b. This world reflects 80 ...