and indicates that this dying star may have gobbled up an orbiting planet that flew too close to its dying sun. Tidal forces from the white dwarf appear to have ripped the nearby planet to shreds and ...

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

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

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

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

This is a death plunge ... believe that the planet's orbit had gradually deteriorated due to its gravitational interaction with the star, and hypothesised about what happened next.

When many stars reach billions of years in age and run out of fuel, they become dying stars ... discovered a star nearing the end of its life had swelled and absorbed a planet that is likely ...

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 ...

The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514 ...

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 ...