The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

Before that, though, our sun will first accelerate outward into a red giant, consuming Mercury, Venus, and possibly even Earth and Mars. If our planet is spared, it could eventually resemble this ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

along with many red giants and white dwarfs. "M67 [was of interest because it] has a chemical composition very similar to our own Sun, and it has many stars in the giant phase. This is because our ...

Starquakes in stars from cluster M67 reveal hidden pauses that mark major internal changes. These pauses improve how we estimate star ages.

Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium ... At this stage, the star becomes a large red giant. Because a red giant is so large, its heat spreads out and the surface ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed hot gas forming a ring around the star and an expanding cloud of cooler dust, evidence of the aftermath.