SPOKANE, Wash. — LSU women's basketball navigated the final 5:04 of the its Sweet 16 showdown with North Carolina State without its leading scorer, junior guard Flau'jae Johnson. Johnson injured ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer Marc Hon.