Auroras occur when solar wind collides with Earth’s magnetic field, creating dazzling lights. Learn why auroras appear in red ...

It's a pretty spectacular sight to see when space debris re-enters the earth's atmosphere. The incredible friction from the speed of the craft colliding with air molecules turns it into thermal energy ...

Astronomers recently pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope at a familiar target, the bright nearby star Fomalhaut, and saw something that looked like a new world. A compact, reflective speck glimmered ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

Astronomers just witnessed the aftermath of something rarely seen: a fresh dust cloud from a cosmic collision around a nearby star, and then another one appearing in nearly the same spot. Twenty years ...

An artist's rendition of a collision between two planetesimals in the debris disk around a young star.Thomas Müller Scientists have captured the first direct images of colliding objects in a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The solar maximum may be over, but the sun has still been busy with activity. A powerful solar eruption is expected to hit Earth soon, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A powerful solar eruption is expected to hit Earth soon, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center. A coronal mass ejection -- ...