A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A new composite image reveals the “Champagne Cluster” as two massive galaxy clusters caught in a rare, violent collision.

The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from ...

In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet ...

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Researchers attempted to quantify the risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit by coming up with an alarming new metric.

In a similar vein, the 2023 source, cs2, recently emerged from another rare yet sizable asteroid collision. The impact poofed ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects carom off one another and coalesce, gradually ...