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NEW YORK — A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes ...
Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each orbit around its host star, generating a comet-like tail ...
A disintegrated comet has left behind a glowing dust cloud—here’s how to spot it before it vanishes from the northern sky.
Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...
A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.
A recently-discovered comet could have appeared in the night sky with the naked eye, but its passage near the sun has turned ...
NASA launched a bold mission: crash a spacecraft into a comet using the force of 5 tons of TNT. The result wasn’t destruction ...
The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust left ...
This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...
Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
MIT astronomers have found a Mercury-sized planet, located 140 light-years away, that is disintegrating rapidly due to its ...
Photos show that comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) experienced a "major eruption," causing it to become temporarily brighter. However, ...