Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

University of Washington astronomers discovered possible evidence of two planets colliding while reviewing 2020 telescope data. The finding came after a sun-like star about 11,000 light years away ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Washington has identified what appears to be the aftermath of two planets smashing into each other around a star roughly 11,000 light-years from Earth. The ...

A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...

The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal ...