In 6 billion years, the sun will expand into a red giant. That process should consume Mercury, and maybe Venus. For a long ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

A rocky exoplanet located 4,000 light years away provides a possible preview of the Sun and Earth's fate 8 billion of years ...

Astronomers were able to capture detailed observations of massive gas bubbles moving on the surface of a star, named R. Doradus, located 180 light-years away.

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

For astronomers, finding a new black hole orbiting an aged red dwarf star is an exciting find in itself, but when that black ...

The massive hot gas bubbles are 75 times the size of the sun, and they appear to be sinking down into the star’s interior ... Doradus, a red giant star 180 light-years away in the Dorado ...