Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

What did Newton understand that was such a revolution? Can someone just... explain gravity to me? Let's start with a ...

A huge, airy giant planet has been discovered by astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...