New fear unlocked: spontaneous black hole implosion. Fresh research predicts that planets may be able to accumulate enough dark matter to suddenly form a black hole at their core. As the intruder ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange planetary system in the thick disk of the Milky Way. The system has four planets that orbit an old, red dwarf star, LHS 1903, which had been photometrically ...

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby companions — is ...

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A distant world may have formed inside a doomed star. This star was ripped apart by its smaller, denser companion – a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf – and the planet could have formed from ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant ...