Far from our own solar system, astronomers have finally watched what planetary scientists have long predicted but never ...

Two enormous space rocks have slammed together in a nearby planetary system, and for the first time astronomers have watched ...

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

“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 an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby planetary system. When astronomers initially spotted a ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has picked up on what seems to be evidence of two planets impacting and then exploding in a oh-dear-God-it’s-like-the-Death-Stars-all-over-again-no-no-nooooooooooo way.

Austin, TX — Astronomers announced today that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision and merger of two protoplanets. The object, known as ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific assumptions about how planetary bodies form and evolve. This is the conclusion of a new study, conducted at the ...

(CNN) — A collision between giant asteroids likely occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent years, and two different space observatories are helping to tell the tale. The ...