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

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

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

Astronomers have found evidence for the formation of young rocky planets around the star HD 23514 located in the well-known Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster that is easily visible in the current ...

The Hubble Space Telescope observed the debris belt and dust clouds around the star Fomalhaut, which was blotted out to allow the fainter features around it to be seen. Credit: NASA / ESA / Paul Kalas ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and ...