A new study suggests that a star 550 light-years away is gobbling up the remains of destroyed planets. RZ Piscium is a sun-like star estimated to be between 30 and 50 million years old — an infant ...

Somewhere around 12,000 light-years from Earth, a star that is slightly smaller and cooler than our Sun did something violent ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have finally watched a star consume one of its own planets, catching in real time a process that will eventually reshape, and likely erase, the world we live on.

Plenty of threats already loom here on Earth without us having to worry about a star engulfing our planet. Fortunately, us Earthlings have made our home on a planet in a solar system that has ...

Our universe is full of stars. Scientists estimate that there are up to one septillion stars in the universe and that at least one in 12 of those stars are what we call planet eaters. That's right.

Can stars eat planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by ASTRO 3D researchers investigated how some pairs of twin stars ...

Our sun is both our best friend and our worst enemy. On the one hand, we owe our very existence to our star. Earth and the other planets in the solar system formed out of the same cloud of gas and ...

Is our solar system quotidian or quirky? It’s one of the greatest questions in astronomy, and scientists are getting a little bit of a handle on it as they examine the more than 5,500 exoplanets (and ...

Ratio of geometrical and gravitational cross-sections at the point of envelope ejection or SB destruction, as a function of stellar radius and SB mass. The dashed line shows the minimum mass required ...