Two planets in orbit around a mature sun-like star recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers report. ... read more
If two large sized planets collide with each other then large amount of heat energy will be released which will propagate throughout our system as it is wholly a vacuum destroying the planets into pieces which will separate apart from each other and move in our solar system. read more
Of the extrasolar planet systems we know about, they don't seem full of planets that are prone to collisions. In fact, you see all kind of complicated motions that keep planets from colliding with one another. Any collisions between planets happened early in the Solar System, and they most certainly did. read more
Two planets in orbit around a mature sun-like star recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers report. "It's as if Earth and Venus collided with each other," said Benjamin Zuckerman, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-author on the paper. read more