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"Most of those don't collide with anything, most of the time," Matthew Archer, deputy director for launch and space domain awareness at the UK Space Agency told AFP on a visit to the observatory.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

But parts of the rocket are shed in space and remain there, stuck in orbit unless they eventually collide with another celestial body.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Because the most powerful acceleration remains concentrated along the boundary, the overall effect changes only slightly depending on whether the nuclei collide directly or strike each other at an angle.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

The 2015 “Secret Wars” story featured some plotting by Doctor Doom and saw multiverses collide, be destroyed and merge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The gas and dust diffusely spread through such galaxies will collide and become warmed.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

At 1-1, Roberto Carlos' seemingly harmless cross was lofted high into the Hampden Park sky, destined to drop where D and penalty box chalk collides.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

When a large meteor collides with Earth, it produces intense heat that melts surrounding rock.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

Some waits were still long on Sunday as a busy spring-break season collides with TSA workers waiting for back pay from the shutdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

They’re not obligated to do so when it collides with their other business interests.

From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2026

She brushes away the thought, but then the responsible-person guilt collides with the burn in her legs and the ache in her toes.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Authorities also are looking into a second unidentified object that collided with a cargo plane after the plane aborted its landing at Leipzig due to the closure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Bild newspaper reported that another cargo plane later collided with an unknown object in mid-air shortly after taking off from Leipzig airport last night.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

One aircraft that had to abort its scheduled landing at Leipzig-Halle airport then collided mid-air with an unknown object nearby but later landed safely elsewhere, a government spokesman said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Yet the car crash involving San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan generated a firestorm far from the Palo Alto street where he collided with an SUV on July 14.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The trouble with this was that the laws of mechanics and electricity, before quantum mechanics, predicted that the electrons would lose energy and so spiral inward until they collided with the nucleus.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Now, Li’s ambition is colliding with Chinese authorities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

It is a positioning problem colliding with a macro shock.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Earlier superluminous supernovae had occasionally shown one or two bumps, often explained as shock waves colliding with shells of gas surrounding the dying star.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

Just days before the JetBlue incident, a United Airlines pilot reported nearly colliding with a drone while approaching Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

They seemed to be going haywire, colliding with one another like excited atoms.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs