Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust ...

Finding a Disintegrating Planet . The astronomers found what they named BD+05 4868 Ab while hunting for exoplanets. When doing so, they look for short dips in starlight brightness that occur ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for ...

"The disintegrating planet orbiting BD+05 4868 A has the most prominent dust tails to date," said Marc Hon, a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT TESS Science Office and the leader of the MIT study.

A large glacier in Antarctica that could raise sea levels by several feet is disintegrating faster than last predicted, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The artist's concept depicts a comet-like tail of a possible disintegrating super Mercury-size planet candidate as it transits its parent star named KIC 12557548.

Our galactic neighbour is starting to fall apart after colliding with a nearby galaxy. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the two brightest galaxies that orbit our own, lying just 160,000 ...