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 ...

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

The research is titled " Seismic Oscillations Excited by Giant Impacts in Directly-Imaged Giant Planets. " The lead author is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...