Newborn Alien World Is Getting Annihilated by Its Host Star

The outer layers of the Jupiter-like exoplanet candidate PTFO8-8695b are being ripped away by the strong gravity of its 2-million-year-old host star, a new study suggests. "We don't know the ultimate fate of this planet," study lead author Christopher Johns-Krull, of Rice University in Houston, said in a statement. The "hot Jupiter" orbits extremely close to its host star, completing one lap every 11 hours.