A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed the existence of the first known planet closely ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

The system is also unusual in that both stars are brown dwarfs — objects larger than any planet but still not massive enough to trigger the fusion of ordinary hydrogen in their cores.

There are approximately 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way. Because such stars are colder than others, scientists have thought they likely would not support habitable exoplanets.

The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass brown dwarfs. Circumbinary planets are ...

Credit: NASA. In a new study, scientists discover that white dwarf stars have greater potential to host habitable planets than previously realized. The team concluded that many more stars in the ...

Earth is a rather special place, quite unlike the other planets in the solar system. It’s nestled at the perfect distance from the sun to allow our water to remain liquid and for life to ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star ... Since it was discovered in 2015, K2-18b, which orbits a red dwarf star more than 120 light-years from Earth, has captivated scientists ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds ... much closer to the white dwarf star than the same zone around Kepler-62.