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

The discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf shows a possible future for Earth billions of years from now.

There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

Located approximately 4,000 light-years away, the planet is named KMT-2020-BLG-0414 and orbits a white dwarf star. Our Sun is ...

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

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently.

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.

The planet, called KMT-2020-BLG-0414 and located 4,000 light-years from Earth, is a rocky world orbiting a white dwarf — the ...

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

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...

Discover key updates from the world of science, including space radiation studies with mannequins, observations of a rocky ...