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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the space agency’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope have been used to spot the first possible "survivor" planet hugging a white dwarf star.

In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf.

“WD 1856 b somehow got very close to its white dwarf and managed to stay in one piece,” said in a statement Andrew Vanderburg, who was a NASA Sagan Fellow at UT Austin while completing the research and is now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The white dwarf creation process destroys nearby planets, and anything that later gets too close is usually torn apart by the star’s immense gravity.

'VAMPIRE' STAR SPOTTED BY NASA’S PLANET-HUNTING KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE.

In a separate project, scientists recently used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover a “vampire” star “sucking” the life out of another star.

Experts discovered a surprising “super-outburst” from a dwarf nova, a type of “cataclysmic variable star.” According to NASA, the star system, which consists of a white dwarf star and its much smaller brown dwarf companion, was seen brightening by a factor of 1,600 over less than a day.

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