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. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it doesn’t get engulfed by our expanding sun.

Scientists have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star 4,000 light years from here, giving us a humbling glimpse into Earth's likely fate. Published in Nature Astronomy, the planet ...

The event KMT-2020-BLG-0414 was detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network, with the lensing star and its potentially future Earth-like planet, located within the Milky Way.

However, this would only be Earth's future if our planet manages to survive the sun's eventual transformation into a swollen red giant.This transformation is expected to happen around 5 billion to ...

This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know. Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.