Hubble Space Telescope images have revealed a second massive collision between planetary bodies orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, roughly 25 light-years from Earth. The discovery, reported in a peer ...

Austin, TX — Astronomers announced today that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision and merger of two protoplanets. The object, known as ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a spectacular collision of two planets within the confines of a faraway solar system, providing us with a rare chance to observe firsthand the extremes of ...

Researchers have observed the fallout from a planetary collision 11,000 light years from Earth. When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash ...

What does it look like two planets collide? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the University of Washington ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has picked up on what seems to be evidence of two planets impacting and then exploding in a oh-dear-God-it’s-like-the-Death-Stars-all-over-again-no-no-nooooooooooo way.

Earth could have lost anywhere between ten and 60 per cent of its atmosphere in the collision that is thought to have formed the Moon. New research led by Durham University, UK, shows how the extent ...