The rings of Jupiter might not ... and a comet is about to have a fateful encounter with Jupiter. In July 1992, Comet ... It had been captured by Jupiter, 20 or 30 years earlier, orbiting the ...

Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Update: NASA has confirmed the object is an interstellar comet and says it has been officially named 3I/ATLAS.

A potential interstellar interloper is currently zooming toward the Sun. Its strange approach angle suggests it may have come ...

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, ... the Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe witnessed an impact fireball in 2020 and amateur skywatchers captured another on video in 2023.

The comet had been orbiting Jupiter for nearly a decade before Jupiter’s gravity tore it to shreds, breaking it apart into 20 fragments. The string of fragments had been caught in a two-year ...

In 1993, three sky watchers — Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy — discovered a comet orbiting Jupiter. In their honor, it was named Shoemaker-Levy 9.. But not long after, it was ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...