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Planets orbiting dead stars known as white dwarfs might be able to remain habitable thanks to general relativity subtly altering their motion. When stars like our sun run out of fuel, they expand and ...

In a startling new observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet with an atmosphere made almost ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI ...

Earth will have a visitor within its orbit for the next several decades, according to astronomers. An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has become a "quasi-moon" to Earth, as it will be sharing an orbit with ...

The planets around white dwarf stars might provide long-term homes for alien life, but they suffer from a fatal overheating problem. Who's going to rescue them? According to new research, it's none ...

This is because the precession of the inner planet's orbit "protects" it from being pulled into more elliptical paths, which, in turn, prevents runaway tidal heating, the researchers explained. (The ...