Astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting a dead star, which they say could resemble our solar system when the Sun dies out in approximately 5 billion years.. Scientists discovered a ...

An artist's illustration of a gas giant orbiting a white dwarf. The recently discovered system represents what the solar system will look like when the sun dies in 5 billion years.

Huge rings of gas surround a large red star named V Hydrae, new images show, signaling its eventual transformation into a much smaller and bluer star. “It’s definitely going through its ...

Blackman said the gas giant, about 1.4 times the mass of Jupiter, is orbiting 260 million miles to 600 million miles from the white dwarf. Although it’s likely to have formed farther from the ...

Uranus is sporting a bright white polar region in Hubble's Oct. 25 image. "Researchers are studying how the brightening polar hood results from changes in the concentration of atmospheric methane ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which is roughly six times the mass of Jupiter (making it a "super-Jupiter ...