Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Scientists have discovered HIP 67522 b, a planet so close to its star that its orbit disturbs the star’s magnetic field, ...

The planet-destroying Death Star from "Star Wars" may be fictional, but a star at the end of its life and only a bit bigger than Earth could be its real-world twin: ...

The "Death Star" may be popularly known as Darth Sidious and Darth Vader's creation to destroy planets in Astronomers believe that for the first time ever, a star swallowed a planet as it died.

A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our sun will go through a similar end-of-life transition.

Astronomers spotted a star just around the corner from Earth in the Milky Way consuming one of its inner planets for the first time. The star is called ZTF SLRN-2020 and is roughly the same size ...

The Death Star is the most infamous superweapon in Star Wars canon – but there is one powerful equivalent, from the franchise's old "Legends" continuity, the Fortress Planet Bastion, a fortified ...

WASP-12b is a planet on a date with a fiery destiny, doomed to plunge into its sun-like star. Scientists may finally know why some hot Jupiters eventually death spiral into their stars.

“This planet might have evaded death once, but it seems unlikely that once the star starts expanding, it would actually continue to survive,” Dr. Hon said.