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

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 ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could ...

Type Ia supernovae have long served as essential tools in cosmology, acting as cosmic beacons that help astronomers measure ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Northwestern University astrophysicist Adam Miller has received a 2025 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation ...

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Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and ...