Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...

Anyone else facing such relentless misfortune would have been consumed by despair. And yet, he changed the course of human ...

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Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

To find a planet on an orbit similar to our own, Kepler would have to monitor the star for several years to confirm that the dips repeated. Scaled up, that meant that Kepler needed to watch one ...

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

The first episode of ITU’s Space Connect examined the fundamentals of LEO satellite constellations, revealing key trends and ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...