Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first-ever direct observation of a star swallowing a planet.

In May 2020, astronomers observed a planetary engulfment for the first time that they believed was caused by a star expanding to become a red giant–swallowing an orbiting planet in the process.

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

WASHINGTON: The young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine in a ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual ... that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere.