A collision between giant asteroids likely occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent years, and two different space observatories are helping to tell the tale.

Some are rocky like Earth. Beta Pictoris b is a jumbo-sized gas planet with 12 times the mass of Jupiter—the most massive planet in our own solar system. Wang said the planet’s size helped ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured images of a dusty “cat ...

This image from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the star system Beta Pictoris. An edge-on disk of dusty debris generated by collisions between planetesimals (orange) dominates the ...