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

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...

The outer reaches of the Solar System, known as the Kuiper belt, is often seen as an icy wasteland and its dwarf planets ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...

Earth-like exoplanets (planets orbiting stars ... are all thought to have saltwater oceans buried under icy shells. Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected of having an underground ...

Red dwarfs are plentiful, and research shows that they host multitudes of planets ... on Earth and perhaps on other worlds." More information: Afonso Mota et al, How habitable are M-dwarf Exoplanets?

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in diameter (that's about ...

Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment ... the rotational characteristics of the planets. The white dwarf star's habitable zone—the region ...

And red dwarf ... a planet with an atmosphere could retain liquid water on its surface. Wolk modeled atmospheric conditions similar to those of planets in our solar system, including an Earth ...

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting ... to be on a super-Earth similar to the ones found recently. Common and easy to find Most super-Earths orbit cool dwarf stars, which are ...