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 ...

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

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

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, surpassing the previous record-holder, Epsilon Indi Ab, which stands at around 35 ...

One of the big surprises: Despite the moon's cooled crust, the data shows Io maintains liquid hot lava just below the ground.

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

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its ...

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 ...