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

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

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

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

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

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 ...

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

It is so close to its star that it is covered in magma and is boiling off into space, say researchers from the Massachusetts ...

The stellar wind spreads the dust particles ahead and behind the world. Its loss of mass rate is estimated to be 10 Earths ...

MIT astronomers have found a Mercury-sized planet, located 140 light-years away, that is disintegrating rapidly due to its ...

The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust left ...