The Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out white dwarf stars in a nearby star cluster. According to astronomers from the European Space Agency, the new discovery suggests that rocky planet assembly is common in such clusters. The pair of […]
Detecting extraterrestrial life from tell-tale atmospheric signatures is much easier to do when the planet under observation is orbiting a dying star, say Harvard Smithsonian scientists who believe that white dwarf systems are the best candidates for catching our first glimpse of life outside our solar system. Explaining their reasoning in Monthly Notices of the […]
