Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...

White dwarfs are the dense, slowly cooling remnants left behind when stars like the Sun exhaust their nuclear fuel. They no longer fuse atoms in their cores, but their gravity remains intense enough ...

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A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by University of Warwick astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately ...

Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type. It means that a single ...