Analysis finds that the mini-world Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is progressively filled with impurities farther from the ...

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

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

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 ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently.

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

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 hunt is on for a second Earth, somewhere out there in the Milky Way galaxy, but a newly discovered world is not quite the ...

The search for a second Earth within the Milky Way is ongoing, but a recently discovered planet falls short of the mark.

Discover key updates from the world of science, including space radiation studies with mannequins, observations of a rocky ...

The planet, called KMT-2020-BLG-0414 and located 4,000 light-years from Earth, is a rocky world orbiting a white dwarf — the ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...