The comet broke into 21 fragments ... We've seen many things hit Jupiter since then. It’s not what hits Jupiter that matters to Professor Horanyi, it's what’s left behind.

Previous research claimed that the rock was a “long-period” comet from the Oort Cloud—an icy sphere of debris around the outer solar system—and that Jupiter caused it to hit Earth.

There is consensus among scientists that the mass extinction was caused by the impact of a large asteroid or comet that hit the Yucatan ... asteroid from beyond Jupiter. Scientists came to the ...

Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt. A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the solar system. A meteor is ...

The study's authors found that one kind of dark comet, called outer dark comets, have similar characteristics to Jupiter-family comets: they have highly eccentric (or elliptical) orbits and are on ...