The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

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 ...

An artist's concept shows a ring of hot gas left after a star consumed a planet, in this undated illustration. —Reuters/ File WASHINGTON: For the first time, astronomers saw a planet being ...

In 1966 a television show called Star Trek made its debut, introducing fans of the show to a character named Spock, who hailed from a planet named Vulcan, which orbited a star called 40 Eridani A.

Mar. 11, 2025 — Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to ... Super-Earths and ...

In 2023, scientists discovered a star nearing the end of its life had swelled and absorbed a planet that is likely about the size of Jupiter. open image in gallery NASA’s James Webb Space ...

But in October, astronomers revealed the existence of a single tiny, rocky planet orbiting the star. And now, another study has found evidence of four. The new results were published last week in ...

The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...