Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

Scientists want to know if a tidal disruption event that exploded twice is the result of a star abandoning its binary partner ...

A group of astronomers from numerous institutions have investigated a recently discovered nearby tidal disruption event known ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...