About 1,200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Auriga, a giant planet is circling its star so closely that it is being pulled apart. The world, called WASP-12b, whips around its sun once ...

Astrophysicists have 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 large size of the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows the egg-shaped planet WASP-12b on a death spiral towar its yellow dwarf parent star. Astronomers have ...

Former (and current) goth kids, prepare to meet your spiritual home. On Thursday, astronomers announced that, much like your cold, cynical heart, the newly-discovered exoplanet WASP-12b is pitch-black ...

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 ...

Exoplanets come in pretty much all colors, including pitch black. The huge, blistering-hot alien world WASP-12b has a reflectance, or albedo, of just 0.064 at most, a new study reports. If you're ...

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 ...