But the sun's transformation into a red giant will only push its habitable zone further, and this could potentially make icy ...

Research on the solar system is becoming more and more precise. The University of Warwick and NASA, after many years of study ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate ...

that doesn't mean most inhabited worlds have a red dwarf sun. Red dwarfs are known to be violently active in their youth. They emit powerful flares that might strip nearby planets of their ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong ... around 4% of the distance between Earth and the sun. The two brown dwarfs of Gliese 229B are so tightly ...