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.

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 ...

The planetary system with a white dwarf, an Earth-like planet and a brown dwarf cannot be seen; the point of light in (c) is from the background source star that is no longer magnified. view more .

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 ...

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 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 ...

The "planet", 5-10 times the mass of Jupiter, is orbiting a small white dwarf star about 100 light-years away. Astronomers are being cautious, saying they require more data to be sure it really is a ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

They could be very distant red background galaxies, but given how many are seen in the images, the chance of two of them being so apparently close to the white dwarfs is low.

Astronomers have discovered a freezing-cold world orbiting within the so-called "forbidden zone" around a dying star in which planets are normally destroyed. The 5.8-billion-year-old white dwarf ...

More information: Juliette Becker et al, The Fate of Oceans on First-Generation Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.12056. Provided by Universe Today.

When planets and moons orbit a white dwarf, the star's gravity may rip them apart into tiny pieces, which may happen in Earth's far future.