A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out. The cause of the star’s strange behavior may have been a cosmic catastrophe that’s ...
Rendering of the planetary collision astronomers suspect occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Credit: Andy Tzanidakis Astronomers have captured a rare, real-time view of a planetary cataclysm ...
Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...
Hubble Space Telescope images have revealed a second massive collision between planetary bodies orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, roughly 25 light-years from Earth. The discovery, reported in a peer ...
Astronomers have spotted a colossal explosion coming from a pair of merging neutron stars lurking within the remnants of an ancient galaxy pileup. The unexpected "collision within a collision" could ...
Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected evidence of a planetary collision occurring approximately 11,000 light-years from Earth, marking a significant milestone in the ...
A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...