NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...
But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...
A NEWLY discovered rogue planet without a host star like the sun to orbit around has been detected dashing through space on ...
Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.
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Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...
Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.
Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...
Everything that has a beginning will have an end. From organisms to planets, the arc remains the same for all parts of the ...
New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...
Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...