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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular scene in a star system not far from Earth, offering the rare chance ...

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...

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

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

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

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 ...

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

"A single collision could have catastrophic long-term consequences," the authors explain, and we would not have long to avoid ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted the glowing remains of two space rocks crashing together in a nearby planetary system, ...

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 ...

Asteroids are windows into the ancient history of the galaxy and our solar system, making them one of the most valuable astronomical objects to observe. The process of asteroid formation is dust ...