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

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

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

The scientists confirmed that the signal is of a tightly orbiting rocky planet that is trailing a long, comet-like tail of ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

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

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

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

In the vast expanse of the universe, scientists are observing a planet's dramatic demise, as it leaves a comet-like trail of ...

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 ...

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

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