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 ...

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

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

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

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

Astronomers believe the solar system's early days were a cosmic bumper-to-bumper, with planetesimals, asteroids, and comets ...

From chaos we all began, and to chaos we’ll all return, but not for a very, very long time — 5 billion years or so, more or less. In the journal Nature on Thursday, two French scientists, using arcane ...

Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and ...