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

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

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up ...

Astronomers have observed a rocky planet rapidly disintegrating near its star, trailing a comet-like tail of mineral dust.

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the least habitable planets ever. This tiny world is being melted by its host star, ...

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

Scientists have identified a planet that has a turbulent relationship with its parent star: it is being disintegrated, and ...

Astronomers from MIT have identified a rocky exoplanet, BD+05 4868 Ab, situated around 140 light-years away, that is breaking ...

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

MIT astronomers estimate a planet 140 light-years from Earth may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.