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

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky this week.

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations. While safe mode is a normal precaution when anomalies are detected, the ...