"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...

A distant star system offers hope that our planet will keep spinning, even after the Sun expands into a red giant.

A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a red giant, perhaps offering insights into ...

However, this team has discovered some clues that throw that identification into doubt, suggesting this lurking dead star is a larger-than-average white dwarf. "The J2354 system was discovered by ...

The Sun won’t last forever, but how long do we have before we need to find another home, even if we look after Earth?

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, ...

The Roads To Power expansion for Crusader Kings 3 lets you become a "landless adventurer". Can an Irish scoundrel make it all ...

New research has shed doubt upon the nature of a distant "dead star" that exists in a binary system with an active stellar companion. Scientists behind the research think this stellar corpse is ...