About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each orbit around its host star, generating a comet-like tail ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly falling apart has been spotted by astronomers after they detected an ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Formed from leftover particles from comet Thatcher, the Lyrids are the oldest known meteor shower – having been observed for ...

This week, learn why experts are divided over an exoplanet, see the first footage of a colossal squid in its deep-sea habitat ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...