People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a red giant star? New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer a temporary refuge. Research suggests Europa's icy shell will ...

Decoding the possibility of life on Europa When a star like our Sun exhausts the hydrogen in its core, the process of nuclear fusion slows down.

Alien life on Mars or Europa could survive off cosmic rays instead of the sun, scientists suggest A doomed exoplanet is caught in a 'death spiral' around its star. Can it survive? When will the ...