A new hypothesis suggests that the breaking apart and eventual collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – the first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

There’s plenty more before those, too, including the famous 1994 collision between comet Shoemaker-Levy and Jupiter. Spoiler: Jupiter won that game of cosmic chicken going away. The only ...

This week, NASA published images of a comet surging a close path to the sun ... explorers a recent image of a color-enhanced view of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno mission taken in December 2024 ...

Studying this Jupiter-sized world and its long comet-like tail can teach us more about the physics of space, including how planets and their host stars evolve together over time. "The WASP-69b ...

The Solar System has a new confirmed comet, after repeated observations ... orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, taking 3,956 days (10.83 years) to do so.

At its brightest, Venus has a magnitude of -4.5, while Jupiter and Mars are around -3. Despite hopes that the comet would be visible during the day, it did not get bright enough during its brush ...

Tuesday, April 9: A 2%-lit crescent moon will be below Jupiter, with comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in between. Wednesday, April 10: A 7%-lit crescent moon will be above Jupiter and comet 12P/Pons-Brooks.

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) will reach its brightest on January 13, 2025, potentially outshining Venus and Jupiter. Detected in April 2024, its perihelion approach offers a rare viewing opportunity as ...

Those with telescopes or other technology can find Neptune in line near Venus and Uranus will be near Jupiter. The Planetary Society calculations indicate Comet C/2024 G3, nicknamed Comet Atlas G3 ...