There’s plenty more before those, too, including the famous 1994 collision between comet Shoemaker-Levy ... That is, if they don’t crash into Jupiter first.
The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.
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.
Contradicting some recent results, this finding reopens the case that Jupiter-family comets ... and possibly comets, that crashed into Earth. A wave of comet and asteroid collisions with the ...
The star's "wind" — a stream of charged particles and magnetic fields that constantly buffets the planet — is shaping that shedding helium gas into ... Jupiter-sized world and its long comet ...
New research indicates that the water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a molecular signature closely matching that of water found in Earth's oceans. This discovery revives the possibility that ...