Science news articles about 'cosmic collision'

A 12-billion-year-old cosmic collision is discovered, Santa Ana winds drive smoke across the Pacific, and more in our weekly update of space photos.

... and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to observe individual stars spawned by the colossal cosmic collision in the Antennae Galaxies. They reached an interesting and surprising conclusion. By measuring the ...

A violent merger between galaxy clusters has split dark matter from ordinary matter

According to a new theory about how mass dyings work, cosmic collisions generally aren't enough to cause a major extinction event. To be truly devastating, they must be ...

Like the aftermaths of car crashes, colliding galaxies leave "skid marks" of debris, as seen in new images that will help astronomers trace pre-crash trajectories.

Evidence that Earth's natural satellite was born of catastrophe; with planetary geo-scientists Paul Spudis, Jay Melosh and David Kring.

Get ready for a unique cosmic collision! Early this coming Friday morning (Oct. 9), NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will end its mission with a bang - literally.