Unlike giant stars that explode into a supernova and collapse into a black hole, a medium star like Earth's sun just keeps on trucking until it runs out of nuclear fuel, suffering a more prolonged ...

A distant star system offers hope that our planet will keep spinning, even after the Sun expands into a red giant. reading time 3 minutes In billions of years, when our Sun runs out of fuel, it will ...

Astronomers report the finding of a unique new object that doesn’t fit with categories that were only established in the last few years. They have observed an ultra-massive white dwarf with an outer ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach its closest point to the sun is in the year 26186. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / ...

"An M dwarf alone couldn't generate the amount of energy we're seeing. Our data suggests that it is in a binary with another object, which is likely to be a white dwarf, the stellar core of a dying ...

Natasha Hurley-Walker is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project number FT190100231) funded by the Australian Government. Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away. A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at ...