Understanding these cosmic collisions not only sheds light on the origins of elements but also reveals the history that ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a binary star system consisting of two white dwarf stars ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

These quirky traits are likely owed to the moons' violent origin story: a series of cosmic crashes that broke ... that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...

A rare collision between two supermassive black holes (SMBH) appears to have sent the resulting merger speeding through the universe, making it one of the fastest-moving black holes we have ever seen.

The team believes that given the size, number, and orbital concentration of these new moons, the Mundilfari subgroup is likely where this cosmic collision occurred. For now, this specific team’s ...

Cosmic Collisions launches visitors on a thrilling trip through space and time—well beyond the calm face of the night sky—to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that drive the ...

In this paper, researchers propose that these small irregular moons likely originated early in Saturn’s history from multiple independent collisions, second-generation collisions between fragments of ...