Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a spectacular collision of two planets within the confines of a faraway solar system, providing us with a rare chance to observe firsthand the extremes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away ...

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 ...

University of Washington astronomers discovered possible evidence of two planets colliding while reviewing 2020 telescope data. The finding came after a sun-like star about 11,000 light years away ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead author Andy Tzanidakis’ rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. (CREDIT: ...