WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like ...

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There's a planet 140 light years from Earth that is rapidly disappearing right before astronomers' eyes. An immense amount of intense heat is to blame. Although the planet is about the size of Mercury ...

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 ...

The artist's concept depicts a comet-like tail of a possible disintegrating super Mercury-size planet candidate as it transits its parent star named KIC 12557548. At an orbital distance of only twice ...

Astronomers around the globe are continuously scanning the cosmos to identify and study the unique characteristics of distant exoplanets. One of the ways they do this is to analyze transit events – ...