An artist’s impression of the two new planets discovered. An inner super-Earth, here seen transiting in front of the orange host-star and an icy giant planet on the periphery of the system.

When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even ...

Binary systems form when two celestial bodies ... This new type of celestial collision uncovered by Denton and her colleagues could shed light on how planets form and evolve as well as how other ...