The same kind of catastrophic smashup that scientists believe created Earth’s Moon may be unfolding around a distant star, and astronomers have a front-row seat. For at least four years, a star system ...

Every planet in the solar system is hurtling toward Earth for an epic series of collisions. We use Space Sim to break down the physics behind these events, simulating six different planetary impacts ...

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 ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...