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 ...

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Looking ahead: Ongoing simulations aim to reconstruct the full formation history of Saturn's inner moons, while NASA's ...

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created Earth's moon.

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin remains one of the biggest unanswered questions in planetary science. Is it 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 ...