University of Washington astronomers have published evidence of a possible planetary collision that could inform our ...

From far enough away, something as large as the collision between two planets can appear as small as the dimming of a star.

Researchers have observed the fallout from a planetary collision 11,000 light years from Earth. When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rare and violent collision between two planets orbiting a star known as Gaia20ehk, located over 11,000 light-years from Earth. The unprecedented discovery, ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Washington have found evidence of a violent collision between two planets nearly ...

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 ...

What: A newly identified star system, Gaia GIC1, exhibits unusual brightness variations consistent with a large planetary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...