At the 2025 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently rocky planets disintegrating under the intense heat of their host stars. At the 2025 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently rocky planets disintegrating under the intense heat of their host stars. Astronomy Planetary Sciences Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
TESS and JWST unveil disintegrating planetary interiors
