Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

Researchers analyzed nearly half a million nearby star systems to understand how giant planets fare as their stars expand into red giants.

According to calculations from IFLScience's resident astronomer, Dr Alfredo Carpineti, using data from NASA's Eyes on the ...

The quiet fear of losing your home is usually a human story, but in the sky, entire worlds may face something similar. As stars age and swell, the space around them shifts in ways that can destroy ...

Astronomers at UCL and Warwick discovered that aging stars devour nearby planets as they swell into red giants. NASA’s TESS ...

The study, led by astronomers from University College London (UCL) and the University of Warwick, provides some of the ...

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...