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

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: ...

While the Death Star could destroy an Earth-sized planet, a Jupiter-sized planet would be a tough challenge, and the Galactic Empire would need to resort to using a Suncrusher to destroy stars.

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: ...

By the way, if the Death Star is much farther from the planet than geosynchronous-orbit distance, it can still do the dirty deed. It may have to be if the planet is to be unaware of its impending ...

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 ...

Falling from a low geostationary orbit (2,000 km), the intact Death Star would need to dissipate a kinetic energy of approximately 3.100.000.000 megatons of TNT, or about 53 million times more ...

The Death Star's planet-destroying weapon is said in the Star Wars Encyclopedia to be a super-laser. While a laser is basically just light, it is light that can be focused onto a precise spot and ...

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.

Near the end of the teaser for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, there’s something very interesting—towering chunks of a Death Star, rising like mountains from a blustery sea. Oh, there's no ...