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Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ that peers into its future.

Vanessa Emeka-Okafor, who will be joining the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ as a PhD student, has been awarded one of this year’s prestigious grants from the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund.

A dynamo mechanism could explain the incredibly strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars according to an international team of scientists, including a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ astronomer.

Scientists at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ are to benefit from a total of over €4 million funding to support new projects that will aim to find and analyse the remains of planets around nearby dead stars, and to find new ways of incorporating the ideas of combinatorics into different areas of mathematics.

Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its original birthplace further away.

Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ astronomers, offering a glimpse of the planets that may have once orbited them up to billions of years ago.