Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

NASA recorded the death of a planet at the hands of a star in an unprecedented event using the unparalleled capacity of the ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

What can an exoplanet falling into its own star tell astronomers about the formation and evolution of planetary systems? This ...

In the vast theater of space, astronomers have uncovered a tale of cosmic destruction unlike any other. The James Webb Space ...

The star ZTF SLRN-2020 was believed by astronomers to have swollen up and engulfed a planet. Recent studies, however, suggest ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled the complex ... Unlike auroras on Earth, Jupiter, or Saturn, Neptune’s auroras appear across unexpected locations due to its tilted and offset ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has performed 'post-mortem' of a cosmic scene after a planet was swallowed by the star it was ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...