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A massive planet outside our solar system is being distorted and destroyed by its host star -- a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly large size of the planet, WASP-12b An international group ...

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Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition ...

An international group of astrophysicists has determined that a massive planet outside our Solar System is being distorted and destroyed by its host star–a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly ...

Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to ...