<ul><li>New research challenges the belief that planets orbiting white dwarf stars cannot support life.</li><li>Caldon Whyte, a Ph.D. student in space sciences at Florida Tech, conducted a study to examine the potential of white dwarfs to host life-supporting planets.</li><li>His research indicates that planets in the habitable zone around white dwarfs could still receive enough energy to support processes such as photosynthesis and UV-driven abiogenesis.</li><li>These findings open up possibilities for future space exploration and the search for planets with life-supporting conditions.</li></ul>

Can planets around white dwarfs support life?

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