NASA's Hubble Telescope has revealed that planetary systems experience violent collisions for much longer than previously ...

Could two giant planetary building blocks really meet in the same star system in just two decades? In the star system around ...

Planet-forming collisions were once thought to be rare—new observations suggest they may occur far more often than scientists ...

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

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

Astronomers studying a nearby star expected to find a planet. Instead, they caught two massive collisions in the Eye of ...

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

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

North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern ...

Hubble Space Telescope data reveal that two large collisions near the star Fomalhaut created dust clouds once mistaken for a planet, helping scientists better understand how planetary systems form ...

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...