Science news articles about 'violent collisions'

... dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

... light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State ... like this before. Apparently, major catastrophic collisions can take place in a fully mature planetary ...

... terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the ...

... is in good agreement with theoretical predictions for particle acceleration by turbulent waves generated by a violent collision. In a broader astrophysical context, galaxy clusters are the largest ...

... star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a multi- ...

... – called The Aquarius Project - showed how the galaxy's halo grew through a series of violent collisions and mergers between much smaller clumps of dark matter that emerged from the Big Bang. The ...