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 ...

Recent observations of white dwarf explosions have revealed new insights into their diversity and relationship to dark energy ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

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If those components then rained down on early Earth via meteorite strikes, they could have helped seed the planet with the raw ingredients for life. “We were super excited to find this—I’ve ...

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The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the body ...

They also checked to see if any of those dips in light curves might have been caused by second planets orbiting the same star but came up empty-handed. While seven additional candidate exoplanets ...