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 ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be violent and chaotic. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Astronomers watched a distant star dim for months and found a metal-rich cloud that may be the aftermath of a massive ...