Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is really like. But our blue-skied, temperate planet is the extreme exception when ...

Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to ...

Earth’s distant future has always been framed as a slow fade billions of years from now, but a new generation of models is painting a sharper and more unsettling picture. Instead of a gentle decline, ...

WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous plasma tides on the star ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Natalie Batalha has had plenty of experience fielding questions from both layfolk and other scientists over the past couple of years — and with good reason. Batalha is the deputy principal ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have finally watched a star consume one of its own planets, catching in real time a ...

The event occurred at the edge of the Milky Way. — -- Astronomers have uncovered evidence that a white dwarf may have gone into death star mode on the edge of the Milky Way, shredding a planet ...

A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A—host to Mr. Spock's fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the "Star Trek" universe—is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and ...