What looked like a mysterious exoplanet was actually the sparkling debris from a violent collision between massive space rocks.

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

A new study finds that, with the immense quantity of satellites that hurtle in Earth's orbit today, the first smashup would ...

In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...

When people think of high-powered machines, they'd likely think of muscle cars before their own muscles. But muscles and ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

It’s possible to defy gravity using sound waves, magnets or electricity, but today’s methods can’t hoist heavy items high in ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

Inserting easy-to-release slipknots into surgical thread could help surgeons to tie perfect sutures — tight enough to help heal a wound but not so tight that they damage tissue. Researchers worked out ...

Chicago Metra riders on the city's southwest side faced extensive delays during the Thursday morning rush hour commute after a train collided with car on the tracks at 87th and Pulaski near Hometown.

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window into the universe’s most extreme events. These collisions not only revealed ...