Analysis finds that the mini-world Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is progressively filled with impurities farther from the ...

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

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

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

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

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 finding provides insights into the future of the Solar System and the fate of Earth once the Sun dies and becomes a white dwarf.

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

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

A newly discovered Earth-size world orbiting a dead white dwarf star gives scientists a hint of what the solar system may look like in billions of years.

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

While the poet Robert Frost wrote that “Some say the world will end in fire/ Some say in ice,” earthlings may take cold ...