Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artist's impression of colliding asteroids For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby planetary system. When astronomers initially spotted a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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. - NASA / ESA / Paul Kalas / ...

While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can ...