Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two ...
When the vote passed, Pluto was no longer considered a planet and instead became the most famous dwarf planet in the solar ...
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 ...
For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...
The discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf shows a possible future for Earth billions of years from now.
Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.
Analysis finds that the mini-world Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is progressively filled with impurities farther from the ...
The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...