Scientists are exploring the origin of life's ingredients on our planet. A recent study suggests that essential volatile compounds, such as hydrogen and carbon, may have come from a cataclysmic impact ...

Just 25 light-years from Earth, astronomers have watched a planetary system tear itself apart in real time, catching the dusty aftermath of violent impacts that were once only theoretical. Instead of ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers announced that an unidentified object may have crashed into Saturn, marking the first time such a phenomena has ever been recorded. According to a release from NASA's ...

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it vanished. Even stranger, another bright object appeared nearby. After studying ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between large space rocks. One of these clouds was even mistaken for a planet before ...