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 ...

When the solar system began to form, everything was chaos. A slew of rocky material was smashing together in a maelstrom that ...

It is a rare occurrence indeed for a theory to be turned upside down by the cold accuracy of observation, until the Hubble ...

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 ...