This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned into a white dwarf, and a blasted and frozen Earth has migrated beyond the orbit of Mars. This distant … Read more