Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

University of Washington astronomers discovered possible evidence of two planets colliding while reviewing 2020 telescope data. The finding came after a sun-like star about 11,000 light years away ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should not be occurring. A star around 11,000 light-years from Earth in the ...

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away from Earth. The rare cosmic event is not one scientists get to see ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Washington has identified what appears to be the aftermath of two planets smashing into each other around a star roughly 11,000 light-years from Earth. The ...

What does it look like two planets collide? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the University of Washington ...

A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...