The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust left ...

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

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found a doomed planet that sheds an incredible amount of material—as much as ...

A distant exoplanet is quickly disintegrating 140 light-years from Earth, spotted by MIT astronomers through NASA's TESS ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer Marc Hon.

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

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...