The life cycles of stars are fascinating, and sometimes the line between stars and planets isn’t as clear as it […] ...

This is the process by which planets gradually move closer to their star due to the gravitational pull from the star. This causes the planet to lose energy and spiral inward over time, often ...

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the planet, it was the planet that crashed into the star.