The Alien Observatory --Odd White-Dwarf Star System Harbors a 13-Billion-Year-Old Planet (WATCH VIDEO)

"In the quest for extraterrestrial biological signatures, the first stars we study should be white dwarfs," said Avi Loeb, theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation. Even dying stars could...