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 ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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 ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...

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

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

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

There are plenty of planets to spot during April, too. Mars, for example, will be high overhead in the south each evening. You can identify it by its salmon-pink color, and when you do, ponder for a ...