NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular scene in a star system not far from Earth, offering the rare chance to witness massive planets colliding. For decades, astronomers have studied ...

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 ...

Astronomers have collected rare evidence of two planets colliding. Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telescope scans showed it shining steadily about 11,000 light-years from Earth, near the constellation Puppis. But when Anastasios Tzanidakis was looking through data from 2020, he noticed the star’s ...

October offers stargazers a packed calendar. Plus, a conversation about colliding planets and disappearing stars with a UW astronomer.

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 ...