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

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected ...

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Irvine researchers report ... professor of Earth system science and ecology & evolutionary biology and one of ...

Two human cells making RNA made visible by the bioluminescent lantern in pink (middle image). On the left ... unevenly and is concentrated at specific locations. Credit: UC Irvine The inner workings ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines might only be able to break free from the “middle-income trap” in 2050 as it struggles to corner more job-generating foreign investments, Nomura said in ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

A newly discovered asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in December of 2032. The asteroid is estimated to be 196 feet (60 meters) wide, and it is currently 27 ...