University of Washington astronomers discovered possible evidence of two planets colliding while reviewing 2020 telescope ...

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

Scientists May Have Caught A Star In The Middle Of Building A Planet In A Nutshell Astronomers have identified a star system roughly 11,500 light-years away that appears to be generating a massive ...

Anastasios Tzanidakis was reviewing archival telescope data from 2020 when he came across a seemingly unremarkable star that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lead author Andy Tzanidakis' rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Photo: Andy Tzanidakis Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most precisely aligned structures in the ancient world. Its sides point almost ...