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

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

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

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 ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...