It’s known for its bright and fast-moving shooting stars resulting from Halley’s comet, the most famous comet of all, which ...

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

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

First planet of its kind with ‘gargantuan’ comet-like tail discovered - Planet’s ‘tail’ is millions of miles long, ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

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 ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Learn why the planet, BD+05 4868 Ab, is only the fourth such discovered and will disappear in one to two million years.

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

Astronomers have observed a rocky planet rapidly disintegrating near its star, trailing a comet-like tail of mineral dust.