Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...

Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the comet in the footage. Credit: NASA/STEREO/Karl Battams | edited by Space.com's ...

“The shape of the transit is typical of a comet with a long tail,” said Marc Hon, another author of the study. “Except that it’s unlikely that this tail contains volatile gases and ice as ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. It is so close to its star that ...

And as it decays, it is leaving behind a tail of matter like a comet. The planet BD+05 4868 A is located 140 light-years away, and is around the mass of Mercury. Unlike Mercury, though ...

An artistic rendering of an exoplanet in a tight orbit, followed by a dusty, comet-like tail of debris. Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each ...

WASHINGTON – Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million ... found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up to 5.5 million miles in space.

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. The Mercury-sized planet, dubbed BD+05 ...