A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

The researchers observed BD+05 4868 Ab as it gradually crumbles into dust, shedding material roughly equal to the mass of ...

MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

Planet BD+054868Ab is one of only four known disintegrating planets, worlds close enough to their star that they end up being roasted and torn apart. But this little world is unique in the extent of ...

Mercury has the shortest and fastest orbit around the Sun and experiences dramatic temperature changes as it rotates. It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet.

Let us first travel out to the iDDermost of the planets, Mercury, which moves in an orbit ... appears like a wan halo investing our globe. As for Mars, which is 145,000,000 miles from the sun ...