White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

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Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

The other subject is Kepler-62, a "main sequence" star at a similar phase in its evolution as our sun ... characteristics of the planets. The white dwarf star's habitable zone—the region ...

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and the low-mass/brown dwarf models couldn't account for the light. The JWST observations hint at the presence of warm material around both planets, which is interpreted as material accreting from a ...