By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

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

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

The scientists say a planet nearby has been destroyed by a ... It was formed when a star in death released gas and is also known as Caldwell 63. The gas now measures about three light-years ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and spectacular phenomenon.

The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a glowing pinwheel, has caused a lot of lost sleep among astronomers. But now they — and the entire planet — may finally ...

Instead of the star coming to the planet, it appears the planet came to the star, with disastrous consequences - a death plunge after ... about what happened next. "Then it starts grazing through ...