Report: Planets will collide in 5 billion years. THE END OF THE WORLD. By David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor June 11, 2009. Artist rendering depicting the collision between Mars and Earth.

MrSpherical. What if Planets Collide? Posted: March 15, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. The Earth wants to play tag and almost crashes into Mars… thus, nearly causing the end of the world.

How to watch Venus and Jupiter ‘nearly collide’ The event is best viewed an hour before dawn. You need to look towards the East and you should see the two planets shining very close together ...

The gas giant Beta Pictoris B, a mere 750 million miles from its star, is probably not the culprit, though it could be if the planet started much farther out in its system -- closer to the distant ...

The early days of planetary solar systems can be violent times indeed. Our own moon was most likely birthed from a stupendous collision, before our own solar system had settled down into the ...

By the present day, the Universe is filled with planets, stars, galaxies, and even larger structures, all bound together against the backdrop of the expanding Universe. But things aren't so clean ...

Venus and Jupiter will appear to ‘nearly collide’ early Saturday The planets will also be fairly close together on Sunday morning Updated April 29, 2022 More than 3 years ago ...

However, we now know that NGC 6052 actually consists of two galaxies that are in the process of colliding.A lot of very interesting things happen when galaxies collide, not least of which is the ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. Listen to this article · 5:18 min Learn more.

Even if a rogue planet came close to the Earth, the interaction may not even destroy the planet if there wasn't a direct hit. "It would need to come close enough to Earth to either collide with it ...

Two distant planets orbiting a young star apparently smashed into each other at high speeds thousands of years ago in cosmic pileup of cataclysmic proportions, astronomers announced Monday.