Astronomers finally have the answer to a 20 year mystery. In A Nutshell Hubble Space Telescope captured evidence of two ...

Two enormous space rocks have slammed together in a nearby planetary system, and for the first time astronomers have watched ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

An upcoming galactic collision is likely to wake the black hole at the center of the Milky Way and turn our home galaxy into a quasar — it could even fling our solar system into intergalactic space, ...

Scientists from the ESA say that our Solar System is going to get a visitor in the form of a star named Gliese 710. Scientists from the ESA say that our Solar System is going to get a visitor in the ...

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New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’ time. The collision could occur much earlier ...

Giant asteroids slammed into each other in a far-off solar system — kicking up 100,000 times more dust than the dinosaur-killing impact on Earth. This violent deep space event occurred in Beta ...

Astronomers are on the hunt for the remnants of the neutron-star collision that gave Earth its precious metals. When neutron stars merge, they spew a wealth of short-lived elements into their ...