The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

While the number of meteors per hour could vary, there is a chance to see many of them race across the sky after the Lyrid ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

Four small rocky planets detected in orbit around Barnard's Star, the nearest single star system to our solar system, are seen in this illustration released on March 11, 2025. International Gemini ...

Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 For decades, astronomers have probed the space around Barnard ... the existence of a single tiny, rocky planet orbiting the star. And now, another study has found ...

“When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said. The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... the star, with an expanding cloud of cooler dust enveloping the scene. Webb also revealed that the star did not swell to swallow the planet, but the ...