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

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 ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

“The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometres long, or roughly half of the planet’s entire orbit,” said Marc Hon, one of the authors of the study from MI ...

The scientists confirmed that the signal is of a tightly orbiting rocky planet that is trailing a long, comet-like tail of debris. "The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million ...

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 ...

The researchers observed the planet, named BD+05 4868 Ab, as it gradually crumbles into dust, shedding material roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest with each orbit of its star. The tail of ...