The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...
Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...
Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...
When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...
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What's a white dwarf star

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.
After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...
An international team discovered a new planet, WISPIT 2b, orbiting the young star WISPIT 2 in the constellation Aquila. The planet, estimated to be approximately 5 million years old, is a likely gas ...
We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...
New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...