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

Astronomers studying a nearby star expected to find a planet. Instead, they caught two massive collisions in the Eye of ...

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

The results come from long-term Hubble observations of how each bright object quickly grew, became oval-shaped, and gradually ...

Could that spark of light near the distant star be the birth of a new planet or perhaps the shiny trail left behind by a ...

Astronomen haben bei Beobachtungen des nahen Sterns Fomalhaut A etwas Neues entdeckt: Rund 20 Jahre nachdem ein Lichtpunkt am Staubring des Sterns scheinbar aus ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...

What looked like a mysterious exoplanet was actually the sparkling debris from a violent collision between massive space rocks.

Astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system. Scientists previously ...

Astronomers from the University of Warwick have discovered a frozen and water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star. The finding was published in the Monthly Notices of the ...

A distant white dwarf star has been observed consuming a frozen, Pluto-like world rich in ice and volatile materials. Astronomers have detected nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur and carbon in the remnants.

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins are uncertain, the comet is thought to come from a part of the Milky Way ...