A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. Using Keck observations, a UC Berkeley team has determined that ...

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

A gas giant planet was recently discovered orbiting a white dwarf star, providing a glimpse at what our own solar system could look like after the sun expands into a red giant and destroys most of ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf star about 4,000 light-years away. This discovery offers a potential preview of Earth’s distant future as the Sun ...

Images of possible planets around white dwarf stars suggest that some gas-giant worlds survive the deaths of their stellar host ...

We know some white dwarfs have planets, and despite lacking nuclear fusion, white dwarfs do emit enough light and heat to have a habitable zone. But the question remains as to whether a planet ...

Artist's rendition of a white dwarf from the surface of an orbiting exoplanet. Astronomers have found two giant planet candidates orbiting two white dwarfs. More proof that giant planets can surve ...

Scientists have shown that extraterrestrial life on alien planets orbiting white dwarfs stars could be detectable, under certain circumstances, by the upcoming James Webb Telescope.

This week, researchers have uncovered a new astronomical oddity: A planet several times the size of the dead star it orbits.

It has been noted that white dwarfs (WDs) have long-lived habitable zones and that a large fraction of WDs may host planets. We point out that during a transit of an Earth-mass planet across a WD, the ...

Astronomers have found the first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf star. White dwarfs are the small, dense remnants of stars that have shed their outer layers and spent most of ...

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 ...