Planet in the ‘forbidden zone’ of dead star could reveal Earth’s fate

A planet has been found orbiting a dead star in a zone where it should have been incinerated when the star died. The discovery might give us a window into the future of our solar system.

When stars like our sun exhaust their fuel, they first expand to become a red giant, then collapse into a dense, Earth-sized remnant called a white dwarf.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope…