For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

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

The innermost planet of our solar system, Mercury, is barely wider than the continental United States, and is often seen as a ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

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 ...

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 ...

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