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Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the solar system that is leaving behind a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

American scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have uncovered a rare and dramatic cosmic phenomenon ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found a doomed planet that sheds an incredible amount of material—as much as ...

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

A distant exoplanet is quickly disintegrating 140 light-years from Earth, spotted by MIT astronomers through NASA's TESS ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...