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 ...

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 ...

The planet, called WD 1856+534 b, is a gas giant exoplanet the size of nearly 14 Jupiters ... a planet would become engulfed ...

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 ...