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

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 ...

About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

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

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

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. It is so close to its star that ...

WASHINGTON – Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail ...

This image provided by Mike Olason shows the newly-discovered comet SWAN with its streaming tail on April 6, 2025. Credit: Mike Olason via AP A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes ...

trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up to about 5.6 million miles (9 million km) long. About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s.

WASHINGTON :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-like tail of ...