Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million ... found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up to 5.5 million miles in space.

An artistic rendering of an exoplanet in a tight orbit, followed by a dusty, comet-like tail of debris. Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each ...

“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 Astrophysics and Space Research. (Image Credit ... the planet ...

The scientists confirmed that the signal is of a tightly orbiting rocky planet that is trailing a long, comet-like tail of debris. "The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million ...

The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust ... indicating a long tail behind the planet. That formation proved to be ...

MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The disintegrating world is about the mass of Mercury, although it circles about 20 times ...