Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at its center. It turns out this ...

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

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided new insights into the catastrophic event of a planet being consumed by its host ...

and travels around its host star in less than seven days. Although Barnard's Star is a small, dim red dwarf only a little bigger than Jupiter and thus much less bright than our Sun, the four planets ...

Even tiny planets induce a slight wobble in their sun as the two orbit a shared center of gravity ... a third of Earth’s mass, and travels around its host star in less than seven days.