Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal | Space ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the solar system—but it’s still no place like home ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The finding has ...

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

The white dwarf star's habitable zone—the region in which an exoplanet could host life-supporting liquid water, among other traits—is much closer to the star compared to that of other stars ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

An international team of researchers has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet first identified by Oxford researcher Dr ...