Hubble Space Telescope images have revealed a second massive collision between planetary bodies orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, roughly 25 light-years from Earth. The discovery, reported in a peer ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

(CNN) — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key insights about this mysterious moon, including how it came to be. The answer may also ...

Although we may be loath to admit it, there sometimes appears to be a little magic in science. By magic, I refer to an overwhelming sense of wonder that accompanies surprising outcomes. Events over ...

LONDON (CNN) -- Four men and one woman appeared at Maidstone Crown Court Monday for a procedural hearing where they were ordered held until June 12 in the theft of 53 million pounds ($92 million USD) ...

Astronomers detect a rare planetary collision 11,000 light-years away, offering new clues about how planets and moons form.

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years ...