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

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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular scene in a star system not far from Earth, offering the rare chance ...

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It is surrounded by several belts of dust and ...

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

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

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 and 2023, represent the first collisions betw ...

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

Giant asteroids slammed into each other in a far-off solar system — kicking up 100,000 times more dust than the dinosaur-killing impact on Earth. This violent deep space event occurred in Beta ...

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

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’ time. The collision could occur much earlier ...