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 ...

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

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have found evidence for the formation of young rocky planets around the star HD 23514 located in the well-known Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster that is easily visible in the current ...

“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” on The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show premieres Sunday, June 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

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 ...

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 ...