In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...

Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects carom off one another and ...

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

But in this case, the companion is officially considered an exoplanet, not a star. The International Astronomical Union ...

We got our first look at images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will forever change how we monitor the night sky.

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Cosmologists are finally beginning to sketch a coherent picture of the universe we cannot see, using exquisitely detailed ...