NASA's Hubble Telescope has revealed that planetary systems experience violent collisions for much longer than previously ...

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Learn about the collisions between space rocks that have created huge dust clouds, one of which was previously mistaken for ...

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope observed repeated asteroid collisions in Fomalhaut’s planetary system, identifying debris clouds cs1 ...

Psyche appears to be an iron core, or part of one, produced during the history of collisions experienced by a fairly large asteroid with other large asteroids. The collision or collisions were likely ...

The universe is often portrayed as a vast stretch of emptiness, but in reality, it’s filled with unfathomable explosions, mind-bending gravitational anomalies, and an untold number of cataclysmic ...

The first scientific report from the flyby of the distant Kuiper belt object (KBO) Ultima Thule, shows two objects gently joined together in a cosmic kiss that is believed to be the process that ...