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

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet, labeled BD+05 4868 Ab, is ...

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

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously ... size of our solar system's smallest and innermost planet Mercury and Earth's moon. It is located about 140 ...

The disintegrating world is about the mass of Mercury, although it circles about ... that the signal is of a tightly orbiting rocky planet that is trailing a long, comet-like tail of debris.

Astronomers have discovered one of the least habitable planets ever. This tiny world is being melted by its host star, leaving a comet-like tail that stretches millions of kilometers behind it.

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, has many features that have puzzled scientists for a long time. For […] ...

WASHINGTON – Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously ... of our solar system’s smallest and innermost planet Mercury and Earth’s moon. It is located about ...