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

What will happen to Earth when our Sun burns out? A newly discovered planetary system 4,000 light-years away might hold the ...

A distant star system offers hope that our planet will keep spinning, even after the Sun expands into a red giant.

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

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

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 ...

A rocky exoplanet located 4,000 light years away provides a possible preview of the Sun and Earth's fate 8 billion of years ...

Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black ...

The newly discovered planetary system consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of our sun and an Earth-like planet in an ...

It was discovered in 2020 with a Korean telescope network using a process called microlensing. The Korean team had watched as the planet’s star passed in front of another star, which from the ...

Astronomers discovered this analog for the future of the solar system when they observed a so-called "microlensing event," referring to the curvature of light from a background source caused by ...