When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

Evidence to support an older age for the formation of the Moon, around 4.51 billion years ago, as per a paper published in the journal Nature. This new analysis suggests that a re ...

Hubble Space Telescope images have revealed a second massive collision between planetary bodies orbiting the nearby star ...

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface ...

Scientists observe a dramatic collision between two planets, offering insights into the formation of Earth's Moon 4.5 billion ...

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February 11, 2026, Mountain View, CA – Recent research suggests that Saturn’s bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini’s 13-year ...

Two of Saturn’s satellites — its largest and one of its weirdest — may owe their current forms and orbits to a two-moon pileup about 400 million years ago. A smashup between a doomed moon and the ...

When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, it created a bit of a kerfuffle when it was reported it had a couple-percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. At 60 meters (196 feet) across, this ...