About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass […] ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

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The planet, roughly the mass of Mercury, orbits its star extremely close, so close that its surface is likely covered in ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Mercury and Venus retrograde, two of the many celestial events some believe can cause turmoil, ended this month.

Researchers at MIT have found an exoplanet that is "crumbling to pieces," leaving a long, comet-like tail in its wake. Dubbed ...

At such close proximity to its star, the planet is likely covered in magma boiling off into space. As the roasting planet ...

MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...