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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host ...

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

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 ...

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

MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The ...

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

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. It is so close to its star that ...

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

The Minor Planet Center officially designated it as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) on April 8. The three astronomers “noticed a faint smudge, indicative of a comet, that seemed to move across the sky over a period ...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - 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 ...