What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...

A newly revealed cosmic image shows two galaxy clusters colliding as one. Nicknamed the Champagne Cluster, it offers rare ...

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

Scientists had stumbled on the dusty debris from two cosmic crashes. Massive space rocks slammed together to create clouds of ...

Webb and Chandra reveal two spiral galaxies after an encounter, exposing heated gas, newborn stars and distorted arms, while ...

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

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

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

Could that spark of light near the distant star be the birth of a new planet or perhaps the shiny trail left behind by a ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, ...