See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: ...

Astronomers have spotted the wreckage left by a massive collision between two huge icy planets around a distant, sunlike star. Using a NASA spacecraft that monitors the sky for asteroids, the ...

Scientists are exploring the origin of life's ingredients on our planet. A recent study suggests that essential volatile compounds, such as hydrogen and carbon, may have come from a cataclysmic impact ...

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered evidence of two planets crashing into each other in a spectacular collision. These two distant exoplanets are thought to have been ice giants—like ...

In a solar system about 1,800 light-years from Earth, two planets smacked into one another in an impact that vaporized them both. And astronomers caught them in the act. “The possible detection of a ...

Planet formation is thought to be a messy process, as lots of growing planets end up in unstable orbits, resulting in large collisions like the one that resulted in the Moon's formation. The messiness ...

Earth could have lost anywhere between ten and 60 per cent of its atmosphere in the collision that is thought to have formed the Moon. New research led by Durham University, UK, shows how the extent ...