Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an unprecedented discovery that promises to reshape our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...

The star blinked once—just a flash in the sky above Palomar Observatory in 2020. To most, it was another transient burst in ...

The planet, called WD 1856+534 b, is a gas giant exoplanet the size of nearly ... dwarf star's "forbidden zone" during the star’s red giant phase, according to the study. It is likely twice ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

Along the way, that smashing heats up and expels stellar gas, which gives rise to the light ... the sun is expected to expand outward in its red giant phase and could well engulf the innermost planets ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

If the planet in this system wasn't consumed by a red giant, then the opposite is the only explanation ... astronomers have been finding bizarre worlds called hot Jupiters. These are gas giants that ...

If the planet in this system wasn't consumed by a red giant, then the opposite is ... bizarre worlds called hot Jupiters. These are gas giants that formed far from their star and then migrated ...