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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

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

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

Just 25 light-years from Earth, astronomers have watched a planetary system tear itself apart in real time, catching the ...

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

An asteroid belt orbits a star in this artist's rendering. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) (CN) — Astronomers with John Hopkins University announced Monday that they had detected what could be asteroid collisions ...

One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car’s owner reported that the ...

Composite image of Abell 2146, Chandra X-ray data (purple) shows hot gas, and Subaru Telescope optical data shows galaxies (red and white). One cluster (labeled #2) is moving towards the bottom left ...

A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observation ...