Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.

A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behaviour of certain “cannibal” stars at the end of their life cycle. By Will ...