A SUPERCOMPUTER has revealed the atmospheric impact of gigantic planetary collisions in graphic detail. The impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for ...

New supercomputer simulations show how the Moon may have formed through the collision of Earth with a Mars-sized planet called Theia about 4.5 billion years ago. UK scientists have produced several ...

Research led by Durham University has developed a way of revealing the scale of atmosphere loss during planetary collisions based on 3D supercomputer simulations. The simulations show how Earth-like ...

An explosive collision between two icy giant planets has been discovered, after being spotted on a social media post by an amateur astronomer. A blaze of light and plumes of dust were created after ...

Astronomers say they are one step closer to understanding how the moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists ...

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

A chance social media post by an eagle-eyed amateur astronomer sparked the discovery of an explosive collision between two giant planets which crashed into each other in a distant space system 1,800 ...

URANUS is arguably the most mysterious planet in the solar system – we know very little about it. So far, we have only visited the planet once, with the Voyager 2 spacecraft back in 1986. The most ...

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Astronomers say they are one step closer to understanding how the moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists ...