Computer simulations show that a crash between evenly sized planetoids creates a Pluto and a Charon, plus a debris disk that could have become Pluto's other two satellites. John Matson reports Imagine ...

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Life NASA Stages Asteroid Collision Simulation, Just in Case The simulated exercise will help researchers at NASA and ESA learn even more about asteroids, a space item perhaps best known from the 1998 ...

There was a time when self-driving cars taking over the roads was a distant vision. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Although autonomous vehicles (AVs) took longer than expected to make ...

The Andromeda galaxy got its peculiar ring-like spiral arms in a collision with a dwarf galaxy around 900 million years ago, a computer simulation suggests. The insight may help astronomers to ...