Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

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An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

Yes, six planets will be visible in the January night sky. And yes, they'll be in a line. But because planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, the alignment isn't anything out ...

As reported by space.com, according to findings presented by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BD+05 4868 Ab is among the closest disintegrating exoplanets to be observed.

brings to the table a technique it recently used to make novel measurements of the interior of a rocky exoplanet called K2-22b — a Neptune-size world 801 light-years from Earth. "These planets ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare treat this month when six planets will "align" in the night sky for an eye-catching planet parade. Planets always appear along a line known as the ecliptic ...