Languages: English. Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star.

The tail of dust trailing the planet wraps halfway around the star. The planet is estimated as between the size of our solar system's smallest and innermost planet Mercury and Earth's moon.

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “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 ...

WASHINGTON :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 tail of ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long, or roughly half of the planet's entire orbit," said Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics ...

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There was a time when "The Handmaid's Tale" was the biggest (cultural) thing on the planet. And it was a popularity fueled by fear and dread. Imagine, if you even possibly could, a time in the n ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “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 ...

The tail of ex-tropical Cyclone Tam will deal out one last lash across the country today as many regions continue to clean up from its destructive impacts. A severe thunderstorm watch has been ...

The disintegrating exoplanet BD+05 4868 Ab orbits a sun-like star 140 light years away from Earth in this illustration image ...

China, in a move to dominate the future of aerial warfare, recently unveiled two sixth-generation stealth fighter prototypes. These advanced aircraft, believed to be developed by Chengdu Aircraft ...