The computer graphics community is always interested in faster methods to generate images. This is why Pixar and several other organizations are funding the research of a Carnegie Mellon University ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing objects colliding within a nearby star system. In the early life of a star ...

The solar system's strange cigar-shaped visitor 'Oumuamua—Hawaiian for "scout" or "messenger"—is tumbling chaotically as the result of a violent collision. And the interstellar object will continue to ...

Earlier today, SpaceX and NASA successfully launched four astronauts into orbit on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The launch went by without a hitch — but the crew of four did experience a ...

In August 2017, astronomers were treated to one of the most spectacular stellar light shows ever seen – a collision between two neutron stars. The smashup was so powerful it sent gravitational ripples ...

Our Solar System is a pretty calm place these days, all things considered, but that wasn't always the case. In the period when the planets were still forming, collisions between various large bodies ...

Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur are crucial to life on Earth. But the relative amounts of those elements are different from those of other rocky objects in our solar system, so scientists have been ...