Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Astronomers have ...

A closer looks at Mercury's tail. A closer looks at Mercury's tail. Mercury has been spotted cosplaying as a comet over the last few days when the sun's neighboring planet reached its nearest point to ...

A planet nearly twice the size of Jupiter is losing its atmosphere through dramatic jets of helium unfurling before and behind it as it travels through space. A team of astronomers discovered the ...

Researchers have detected a giant tail of gas leaking from an exoplanet near Earth. The giant structure, which is up to 350,000 miles long, is being blown away from the alien world by stellar gusts, ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

A viral particle with an unprecedentedly long 'tail' has been caught infecting dinoflagellate plankton in the Pacific Ocean. The virus, PelV-1 uses its tail to attach to its intended victim while ...

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture.

It turns out that, like the antennas on an insect or crustacean, a ray uses its tail to sense its environment. The inside of a myliobatid stingray tail is remarkably complex, the scientists learned.

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...

Mercury's comet-like tail is made predominantly of sodium ions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mercury has been spotted ...