A study from 2023 concluded that ZTF SLRN-2020 was an evolved sun-like star called a "red giant" that had expanded, in the process engulfing a gas giant planet orbiting around it. The flash of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...

A planet, spiraling inward, crashed directly into a regular star, not a red giant. This impact triggered a massive gas ejection, forming a surprising disk of molecular gas, resembling planet ...

In a cosmic event 12,000 light-years away, astronomers have captured, for the first time, the dramatic death of a planet as it was swallowed by its host star—not by expansion, but by a doomed inward ...

An artistic impression of a red giant star using DALL-E. Photo: Claudia Reyes/ANU Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, becoming what is called a red giant. New observations by the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope appear to have made the first-ever direct observation of a star swallowing a planet. Clearly the stellar host was the culprit of this gruesome crime.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

In approximately five billion years, Earth’s own sun will turn into a red giant and ... discovered a star nearing the end of its life had swelled and absorbed a planet that is likely about ...