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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the meantime, the data from this event will continue to reveal how violent the birth of planetary systems can be. Research findings are available online in the journal The Astrophysical Journal ...

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 ...