WASHINGTON (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 a comet-like ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up ...

Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star. The small, rocky world—given the ...

MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The disintegrating world is about the mass of Mercury, although it circles about 20 times ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with a tail, like a gigantic comet. The planet, known as WASP-69b, is slowly evaporating in the radiation of its host star. WASP-69b is a gas giant that orbits ...

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 discovered an unusual exoplanet with a long “tail” of gas trailing behind it, not unlike a giant comet. As NASA details in a recent article about the discovery, the planet, dubbed ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and ...