In 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory detected a star—named ZTF SLRN-2020—brightening unexpectedly.

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Strobe lights flashing on the dance floor, heavy pours of liquor gushing from glass to glass and the aroma of poppers wafting ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

Bizarre, oddly shaped meteorites that crashed into a jungle in Costa Rica in 2019 were “mudballs” that travelled through space unscathed for nearly two million years, a new study has found. The ...

Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...