Actually, that doesn't take much imagination because collisions involving everything from rowboats to supertankers are all too common. Google "ship collision" and you'll find a depressing parade of ...

When the solar system began to form, everything was chaos. A slew of rocky material was smashing together in a maelstrom that would eventually become the baby protoplanets, comets and asteroids that ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What astronomers initially suspected to be a new exoplanet is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, ...

The space around Earth has become increasingly cluttered with decades of accumulated debris left over from rocket launches, derelict satellites and the occasional antisatellite weapon test—not to ...

"2.8 days is the average expectation value for time to the first collision." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How long would it ...

This composite Hubble Space Telescope image shows the debris ring and dust clouds cs1 and cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. For comparison, dust cloud cs1, imaged in 2012, is pictured with dust cloud cs2 ...

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 ...

"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This artist’s concept shows the sequence of events leading up to the creation of dust cloud cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. In Panel 1, the star Fomalhaut appears in the top left corner. Two white dots ...

Standing on a college football sideline at Florida Atlantic University, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Craig Gaines quickly took a few steps back as two players barreled toward him. Gaines was working ...